Gender differences in episodic memory

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 801-811

  Herlitz, Agneta ^a,b,c   Nilsson, Lars Göran ^c   Bäckman, Lars ^a,b,d  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM GERONTOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; SEMANTICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL MEMORY; SWEDEN; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030722292     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211324     Document Type: Article

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