Heart rate response to post-learning stress predicts memory consolidation

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 109, Issue , 2014, Pages 74-81

  Larra, Mauro F ^a   Schulz, André ^b   Schilling, Thomas M ^a   Ferreira de Sá, Diana S ^a   Best, Daniel ^a   Kozik, Bartlomiej ^a   Schächinger, Hartmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Cold pressor stress test; Heart rate; Identity memory; Memory consolidation; Recognition memory

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADRENERGIC ACTIVITY; ADULT; ANGER; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; COLD PRESSOR TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL STRESS; NORMAL HUMAN; SALIVA LEVEL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

COLD PRESSOR STRESS TEST; HEART RATE; IDENTITY MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; RECOGNITION MEMORY;

ADULT; AFFECT; BLOOD PRESSURE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MEMORY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891103602     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2013.12.004     Document Type: Article

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