Age differences in episodic memory, semantic memory, and priming: Relationships to demographic, intellectual, and biological factors

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1996, Pages

  Nyberg, Lars ^a,b   Bäckman, Lars ^c,d,e   Erngrund, Karin ^b   Olofsson, Ulrich ^b   Nilsson, Lars Göran ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM GERONTOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0029953070     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/51B.4.P234     Document Type: Article

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