Age and emotional salience of stimuli alter the expression of visual recognition memory

Current Psychology Letters: Behaviour, Brain and Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1-10

  Brown, Andrew ^a   Robinson, Astri ^b   Herbert, Jane S ^a   Pascalis, Olivier ^b  

^a Department of Psychology ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affect; Infant; Memory; Social Interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011396192     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13796100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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