Enhanced Emotional Memory: Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 430-436

  Talmi, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

arousal; attention; distinctiveness; emotion; memory; organization; semantic relatedness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889638832     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721413498893     Document Type: Article

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