Laugh yourself to sleep: Memory consolidation for humorous information

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 232, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1415-1427

  Chambers, Alexis M ^a   Payne, Jessica D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Consolidation; Emotion; Emotional reactivity; Humor; Memory; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ART; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMOR; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; LAUGHTER; MEMORY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAUGHTER; MALE; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SLEEP; TIME FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS; WIT AND HUMOR AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899937276     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3779-7     Document Type: Article

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