Differential age-related decline in conflict-driven task-set shielding from emotional versus non-emotional distracters

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1697-1706

  Monti, Jim M ^a,b   Weintraub, Sandra ^a   Egner, Tobias ^a,c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognitive control; Conflict adaptation; Emotional control; Face word Stroop task; Probable Alzheimer's disease

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952543984     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.02.017     Document Type: Article

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