Divergent trajectories in the aging mind: Changes in working memory for affective versus visual information with age

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 542-553

  Mikels, Joseph A ^a   Larkin, Gregory R ^a   Reuter Lorenz, Patricia A ^b   Carstensen, Laura L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Cognition; Emotion; Positivity effect; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPATIAL MEMORY; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 31044445800     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.20.4.542     Document Type: Article

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