Older and younger adults use a functionally identical algorithm to select items for restudy during multitrial learning

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1997, Pages

  Dunlosky, John ^b   Hertzog, Christopher ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; STUDY;

EID: 0030743486     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/52B.4.P178     Document Type: Article

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