Age-Related Changes in the Encoding and Retrieval of Emotional and Non-Emotional Information

Memory and Emotion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 159-187

  Uttl, Bob ^a   Graf, Peter ^b  

^a TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Age; Emotional events; Encoding; Methodological problems; Verbal learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889376566     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470756232.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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