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Cortisol variation in humans affects memory for emotionally laden and neutral information
2003
Behavioral Neuroscience
In a test of the effects of cortisol on emotional memory, 90 men were orally administered placebo or 20 or 40 mg cortisol and presented with emotionally arousing and neutral stimuli. On memory tests administered within 1 hr of stimulus presentation, cortisol elevations caused a reduction in the number of errors committed on free-recall tasks. Two evenings later, when cortisol levels were no longer manipulated, inverted-U quadratic trends were found for recognition memory tasks, reflecting
doi:10.1037/0735-7044.117.3.505
pmid:12802879
fatcat:umbr7fdnojaqza55otp7b4eila