Growing slower and less accurate: Adult age differences in time-accuracy functions for recall and recognition from episodic memory

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 3-19

  Verhaeghen, Paul ^a,b   Vandenbroucke, Anneloes ^a   Dierckx, Vicky ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b 430 Huntington Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AGING; HUMANS; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031935649     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/036107398244337     Document Type: Article

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