Retrieval of Emotional Memories.
Long-term memories are influenced by the emotion experienced during learning as well as by the emotion experienced during memory retrieval. The present article reviews the literature addressing the effects of emotion on retrieval, focusing on the cognitive and neurological mechanisms that have been...
| Published in: | Psychological Bulletin Vol. 133; no. 5; pp. 761 - 780 |
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American Psychological Association
September 2007
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