Age and working memory: The role of perceptual speed, the central executive, and the phonological loop

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 316-323

  Fisk, John E ^a   Warr, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS;

EID: 0030035617     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.11.2.316     Document Type: Article

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