Memory for contextual details: Effects of emotion and aging

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 241-250

  Kensinger, Elizabeth A ^a,b   Piguet, Olivier ^a   Krendl, Anne C ^a   Corkin, Suzanne ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; RETINA IMAGE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 22544470555     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.20.2.241     Document Type: Article

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