Tuning to the significant: Neural and genetic processes underlying affective enhancement of visual perception and memory

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 259, Issue , 2014, Pages 229-241

  Markovic, Jelena ^a   Anderson, Adam K ^b,c   Todd, Rebecca M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

ADRA2b; Amygdala; Emotion; Emotional memory; Norepinephrine; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2B ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; NORADRENALIN;

ADRA2B GENE; AFFECT; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONALITY; EPIGENETICS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; GENE DELETION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LOCUS CERULEUS; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNISHMENT; REVIEW; REWARD; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADRA2B; AMYGDALA; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL MEMORY; NOREPINEPHRINE; VISUAL ATTENTION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BRAIN; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOREPINEPHRINE; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-2; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84888776838     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.11.018     Document Type: Review

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