Age differences in the emotional modulation of attention: Effects of own-age versus other-age emotional face cues on the alerting and orienting networks

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 709-722

  Noh, Soo Rim ^a   Isaacowitz, Derek M ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Attentional networks; Emotion; Face cues; Own age bias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE CUE; GESTURE; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY; VALIDITY; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

EID: 80053490774     PISSN: 20445911     EISSN: 2044592X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2011.570255     Document Type: Article

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