The Effects of Valence and Arousal on Associative Working Memory and Long-Term Memory

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Bergmann, Heiko C ^a   Rijpkema, Mark ^a,b   Fernández, Guillén ^a,b   Kessels, Roy P C ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE WORKING MEMORY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALENCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871544102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052616     Document Type: Article

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