The effect of retrieval focus and emotional valence on the medial temporal lobe activity during autobiographical recollection

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue AUG, 2013, Pages

  Denkova, Ekaterina ^a   Dolcos, Sanda ^b   Dolcos, Florin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; MTL; Personal memories; Retrieval goal; Valence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84883418308     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00109     Document Type: Article

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