Negative emotional outcomes impair older adults' reversal learning

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1014-1028

  Nashiro, Kaoru ^a   Mather, Mara ^a   Gorlick, Marissa A ^b   Nga, Lin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Emotion; Feedback; Reversal learning; Reward

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MOOD; NEGATIVE EMOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REVERSAL LEARNING;

EID: 80052439754     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2010.542999     Document Type: Article

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