How arousal affects younger and older adults' memory binding

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 108-128

  Nashiro, Kaoru ^a   Mather, Mara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AROUSAL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78751542943     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0361073X.2011.536746     Document Type: Article

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