Effects of emotion and age on performance during a think/no-think memory task

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 940-955

  Murray, Brendan D ^a   Muscatell, Keely A ^b   Kensinger, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Emotion; Encoding; Memory suppression; Think no think

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BECK ANXIETY INVENTORY; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CUES; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; REPRESSION, PSYCHOLOGY; SEMANTICS; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82955190486     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023214     Document Type: Article

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