Decreasing Complexity of Affective Space in Older Adults Lower on Cognitive Control: Affective Effects in a Nonaffective Task and With Nonaffective Stimuli

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 716-730

  Wurm, Lee H ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Auditory lexical decision; Cognitive resources; Emotion; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052876073     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022513     Document Type: Article

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