Outside of the laboratory: Associations of working-memory performance with psychological and physiological arousal vary with age

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 103-114

  Riediger, Michaela ^a   Wrzus, Cornelia ^a   Klipker, Kathrin ^a   Müller, Viktor ^b   Schmiedek, Florian ^c   Wagner, Gert G ^b,d  

^a Max Planck Research Group Affect Across the LifeSpan   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^c GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age differences; Ambulatory assessment; Heart rate; Tense and energetic arousal; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; VERY ELDERLY; WORKING MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; SELF REPORT; WAKEFULNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897824145     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0035766     Document Type: Article

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