Memory for emotionally arousing stimuli: A comparison of younger and older adults

Journal of General Psychology

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 23-42

  Otani, Hajime ^a   Libkuman, Terry M ^a   Widner Jr , Robert J ^b   Graves, Emily I ^a  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Central and peripheral details; Emotion; Gist; Memory; Poststimulus elaboration; Preattentive processing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AROUSAL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33947507528     PISSN: 00221309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/GENP.134.1.23-42     Document Type: Article

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