False Memory in Aging: Effects of Emotional Valence on Word Recognition Accuracy

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 307-314

  Piguet, Olivier ^a,b   Connally, Emily ^a   Krendl, Anne C ^a   Huot, Jessica R ^a   Corkin, Suzanne ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

emotion; learning; memory deficit; response bias

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; COGNITION; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FALSE MEMORY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHONEME; RECALL BIAS; SPELLING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD LIST RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; CUES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; REPRESSION; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 46849119791     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.23.2.307     Document Type: Article

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