Elevated False Recollection of Emotional Pictures in Young and Older Adults

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 981-988

  Gallo, David A ^a,b   Foster, Katherine T ^b   Johnson, Elizabeth L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; emotion; illusory recollection; retrieval monitoring

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FALSE MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AFFECT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75149120218     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017545     Document Type: Article

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