Attenuating age-related learning deficits: Emotional valenced feedback interacts with task complexity

Emotion

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 250-261

  Gorlick, Marissa A ^a   Giguère, Gyslain ^a   Glass, Brian ^a   Nix, Brittany N ^a   Mather, Mara ^b   Maddox, W Todd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotional processing; Learning; Normal aging; Set shifting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EMOTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MEMORY; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANGER; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MIDDLE AGED; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881092416     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0030071     Document Type: Article

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