Learning to Attend to Threat Accelerates and Enhances Memory Consolidation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Abend, Rany ^a   Karni, Avi ^b   Sadeh, Avi ^a   Fox, Nathan A ^c   Pine, Daniel S ^d   Bar Haim, Yair ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION TO THREAT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ATTENTION; MEMORY; REACTION TIME; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877004076     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062501     Document Type: Article

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