On EMDR: Eye movements during retrieval reduce subjective vividness and objective memory accessibility during future recall

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 177-183

  van den Hout, Marcel A ^a   Bartelski, Nicola ^a   Engelhard, Iris M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

EMDR; Memory; PTSD; Reaction time task

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SELF REPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; EMOTIONS; EYE MOVEMENT DESENSITIZATION REPROCESSING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; REACTION TIME; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84874336041     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2012.691087     Document Type: Article

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