A unique memory process modulated by emotion underpins successful odor recognition and episodic retrieval in humans

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JUNE, 2014, Pages

  Saive, Anne Lise ^a   Royet, Jean Pierre ^a   Ravel, Nadine ^a   Thévenet, Marc ^a   Garcia, Samuel ^a   Plailly, Jane ^a  

^a LYON NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER   (France)

Author keywords

Breathing; Emotion; Encoding; Episodic memory; Human; Olfaction; Recognition memory; Visuospatial context

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATHING; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EMOTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; SMELLING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84902173579     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00203     Document Type: Article

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