Ah, Yes, I Remember It Well: The Impacts of Age on Memory for Emotional Stimuli

dc.contributor.author	Feigenbaum, Jamie
dc.date.accessioned	2009-06-19T14:10:23Z
dc.date.available	2009-06-19T14:10:23Z
dc.date.issued	2009-06-19T14:10:23Z
dc.description.abstract	As people age, cognitive abilities decline, while emotional processing abilities remain intact, or even improve (e.g., Fung & Carstensen, 2003). This experiment examined the influence of emotion on the recall of false semantic memories in older adults. The participants were a group of older adults (N= 32; range= 64-92 years) and a complementary group of younger adults (N=33; range= 18-27 years). All participants completed an adapted version of the Deese/Roediger/McDermott (1995) task that incorporated words of varying emotional valence, to examine their levels of true and false memory for auditory stimuli. Older adults demonstrated more false memory for positively-valenced stimuli. The implications of these results are discussed with respect to changes in emotional processing across the life-span.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/13006
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	Aging	en_US
dc.subject	Emotional Memory	en_US
dc.title	Ah, Yes, I Remember It Well: The Impacts of Age on Memory for Emotional Stimuli	en_US
dc.type	dissertation or thesis	en_US

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