Cognitive Resources, Valence, and Memory Retrieval of Emotional Events in Older Adults

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 585-594

  Petrican, Raluca ^a   Moscovitch, Morris ^a   Schimmack, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

executive attention; long term memory; older adults; personality; retrieval

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; AGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH STATUS; LIFE EVENT; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECALL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 54049100330     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013176     Document Type: Article

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