Younger but not older adults benefit from salient feedback during learning

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue AUG, 2011, Pages

  Herbert, Michael ^a   Eppinger, Ben ^b   Kray, Jutta ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Ambiguous feedback; Error related negativity; Feedback salience; Feedback related negativity; Positive and negative learning; Reinforcement learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865074860     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00171     Document Type: Article

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