Selective Attention to Emotion in the Aging Brain

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 519-529

  Samanez Larkin, Gregory R ^a   Robertson, Elaine R ^a   Mikels, Joseph A ^b   Carstensen, Laura L ^a   Gotlib, Ian H ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; attention; emotion; fMRI; prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RESPONSE TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349277167     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016952     Document Type: Article

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