Embodied memory: unconscious smiling modulates emotional evaluation of episodic memories

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Arminjon, Mathieu ^a,b   Preissmann, Delphine ^a,c,d   Chmetz, Florian ^a,d   Duraku, Andrea ^a,c   Ansermet, François ^a,b   Magistretti, Pierre J ^a,d,e,f  

^a Agalma Foundation Geneva   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

^f KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

embodied cognition; facial feedback hypothesis; memory; reconsolidation; somatic markers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939799692     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00650     Document Type: Article

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