The stressed eyewitness: The interaction of thematic arousal and post-event stress in memory for central and peripheral event information
Both arousal during the encoding of stimuli and subsequent stress can affect memory, often by increasing memory for important or central information. We explored whether event-based (thematic) arousal and post-event stress interact to selectively enhance eyewitnesses’ memory for the central aspects...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2012-08-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnint.2012.00057/full |