Narrative comprehension and aging: The fate of completed goal information

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 69-79

  Radvansky, Gabriel A ^a   Curiel, Jacqueline M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; MEMORY; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; READING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0031977512     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.13.1.69     Document Type: Article

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