The comprehensive affect testing system-abbreviated: Effects of age on performance

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 89-104

  Schaffer, Sarah G ^a,b   Wisniewski, Amy ^a   Dahdah, Marie ^a   Froming, Karen B ^c  

^a PALO ALTO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect perception; Affect recognition; Age; Age differences; Age effects; Emotion perception; Emotion recognition; Facial affect; Neuropsychology; Prosody; Prosody recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSIVE AFFECT TESTING SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; AFFECT; AGING; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AGING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 65649104998     PISSN: 08876177     EISSN: 18735843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/arclin/acp012     Document Type: Article

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