Age effects in emotional prospective memory: Cue valence differentially affects the prospective and retrospective component

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 498-509

  Schnitzspahn, Katharina M ^a   Horn, Sebastian S ^b   Bayen, Ute J ^b   Kliegel, Matthias ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Emotion; Multinomial modeling; Prospective memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AFFECT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MALE; PROSPECTIVE MEMORY; RETROSPECTIVE MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADOLESCENT; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; CUES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864051408     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025021     Document Type: Article

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