Aging and Goal-Directed Emotional Attention: Distraction Reverses Emotional Biases

Emotion

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 705-714

  Knight, Marisa ^a   Seymour, Travis L ^a   Gaunt, Joshua T ^a   Baker, Christopher ^a   Nesmith, Kathryn ^a   Mather, Mara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; cognitive control; emotion; eye tracking

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; COGNITION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; GOALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 38149064452     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.7.4.705     Document Type: Article

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