Psychophysiological arousal at encoding leads to reduced reactivity but enhanced emotional memory following sleep

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 114, Issue , 2014, Pages 155-164

  Cunningham, Tony J ^a   Crowell, Charles R ^a   Alger, Sara E ^a   Kensinger, Elizabeth A ^b   Villano, Michael A ^a   Mattingly, Stephen M ^a   Payne, Jessica D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective reactivity; Emotional memory; Heart rate; Memory consolidation; Skin conductance response; Sleep

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECELERATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NIGHT SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; RECOGNITION; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SLEEP TIME; WAKEFULNESS; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; SLEEP;

AROUSAL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; SLEEP;

EID: 84903591381     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2014.06.002     Document Type: Article

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