Emotion and memory: A recognition advantage for positive and negative words independent of arousal

Cognition

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 530-535

  Adelman, James S ^a   Estes, Zachary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arousal; Emotion; Memory; Recognition; Valence

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; HUMAN; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS; VALIDATION STUDY; WORD RECOGNITION;

AROUSAL; EMOTION; MEMORY; RECOGNITION; VALENCE;

ADULT; AROUSAL; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884148247     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.08.014     Document Type: Article

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