We remember the good things: Age differences in learning and memory

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 515-521

  Eppinger, Ben ^a,b   Herbert, Michael ^b   Kray, Jutta ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Event related potential (ERP); Learning; Memory; Reward

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; REWARD;

AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REWARD; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952541775     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2010.01.009     Document Type: Article

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