Age differences in the automatic accessibility of emotional words from semantic memory

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-9

  Yang, Lixia ^a   Hasher, Lynn ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Automatic accessibility; Negativity effect; Positivity effect; Semantic memory; Word fragment completion

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD LIST RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; AROUSAL; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

EID: 78651260230     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930903523348     Document Type: Article

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