When fear forms memories: Threat of shock and brain potentials during encoding and recognition

Cortex

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 819-826

  Weymar, Mathias ^a   Bradley, Margaret M ^a   Hamm, Alfons O ^b   Lang, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotion; ERPs; Memory; Stress; Threat

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; EMOTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; SAFETY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS; THREAT; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 84875232847     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2012.02.012     Document Type: Article

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