Daily-life contact affects the own-age bias and neural correlates of face memory in elderly participants

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 3496-3508

  Wiese, Holger ^a   Komes, Jessica ^a   Schweinberger, Stefan R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive aging; Event Related Potentials; Face memory; Own age bias

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EPISODIC MEMORY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL MEMORY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AWARENESS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868316808     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.09.022     Document Type: Article

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