Adult age-differences in subjective impression of emotional faces are reflected in emotion-related attention and memory tasks

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Svärd, Joakim ^a   Fischer, Håkan ^a,b   Lundqvist, Daniel ^c  

^a AGING RESEARCH CENTER   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aging; Arousal; Attention; Categorical perception; Emotion; Faces; Memory; Subjective rating

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904551869     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00423     Document Type: Article

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