Adult age differences in long-term semantic priming

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 107-135

  Allen, Philip A ^a   Goldstein, Beth ^a   Madden, David J ^b   Mitchell, David B ^c  

^a CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0031000188     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610739708254028     Document Type: Article

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