Estrogen and working memory for emotional facial expressions
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Working memory for emotional facial expressions: role of the estrogen in young women.
Physiological hormonal fluctuations during the menstrual cycle, postpartum, and menopause have been implicated in the modulation of mood, cognition, and affective disorders. Taking into account that women's performance in memory tasks can also fluctuate with circulating hormones levels across the menstrual cycle, the cognitive performance in a working memory task for emotional facial expression...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1662-5153
DOI: 10.3389/conf.neuro.08.2009.09.157