Emotional enhancement of immediate memory: Positive pictorial stimuli are better recognized than neutral or negative pictorial stimuli

Advances in Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 255-266

  Chainay, Hanna ^a   Michael, George A ^a   Vert Pré, Mélissa ^a   Landré, Lionel ^a   Plasson, Amandine ^a  

^a Lyon University   (France)

Author keywords

Emotional memory enhancement; Explicit implicit retrieval; Intentional incidental encoding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877996036     PISSN: 18951171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5709/acp-0121-1     Document Type: Article

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