Response latencies for false memories: Gist-based processes in normal aging

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 230-241

  Tun, Patricia A ^a   Wingfield, Arthur ^a   Rosen, Merri J ^a   Blanchard, Lisa ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBABILITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0031863326     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.13.2.230     Document Type: Article

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