Effects of Emotional Valence and Arousal Upon Memory Trade-Offs With Aging

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 412-422

  Waring, Jill D ^a   Kensinger, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; emotion; memory; trade off

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BECK ANXIETY INVENTORY; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66549085850     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015526     Document Type: Article

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