Memory bias for negative emotional words in recognition memory is driven by effects of category membership

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 867-880

  White, Corey N ^a   Kapucu, Aycan ^b   Bruno, Davide ^c   Rotello, Caren M ^d   Ratcliff, Roger ^e  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YASAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c LIVERPOOL HOPE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Category effects; Emotional memory; Recognition memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMOTION; HUMAN; MEMORY BIAS; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORD LIST RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; MEMORY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RECOGNITION; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; HUMANS; MEMORY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); ROC CURVE; STUDENTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84900853445     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2013.858028     Document Type: Article

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