The association of elaborative or maintenance rehearsal with age, reading comprehension, and verbal working memory performance

Aphasiology

Volumn 14, Issue 5-6, 2000, Pages 515-526

  Harris, Joyce L ^a   Qualls, Constance Dean ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; COMPREHENSION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0034124778     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/026870300401289     Document Type: Conference Paper

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