The age of the beholder: ERP evidence of an own-age bias in face memory

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2973-2985

  Wiese, Holger ^a   Schweinberger, Stefan R ^a   Hansen, Kerstin ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Event related potentials; Face processing; Own race bias; Recognition memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION; SENSORY MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 48049124971     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.06.007     Document Type: Article

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