Curvilinear relationship between phonological working memory load and social-emotional modulation

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 283-304

  Mano, Quintino R ^a,b   Brown, Gregory G ^a,b   Bolden, Khalima ^a,b,c   Aupperle, Robin ^a,b   Sullivan, Sarah ^b   Paulus, Martin P ^a,b   Stein, Murray B ^a,b  

^a VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective interference; Delayed match to sample; Facial distraction; Social emotional processing; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL LOAD; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84873635315     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2012.712948     Document Type: Article

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