The impact of emotion on perception, attention, memory, and decision-making

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 143, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Brosch, Tobias ^a   Scherer, Klaus R ^a   Grandjean, Didier ^a   Sander, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Appraisal; Attention; Cognition; Decision making; Emotion; FMRI; Memory; Perception

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AFFECT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION STORAGE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PERCEPTION; REVIEW; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BRAIN; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

AMYGDALA; ATTENTION; BRAIN; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 84878379803     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: 14243997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2013.13786     Document Type: Review

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