Electrophysiological signature of emotional memories

Hurting Memories and Beneficial Forgetting

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 21-35

  Weymar, Mathias ^a,b   Hamm, Alfons ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-398393-0.00002-X     Document Type: Chapter

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