Older adults filter irrelevant information during metaphor comprehension

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 253-267

  Newsome, Mary R ^a   Glucksberg, Sam ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; LITERATURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADOLESCENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LANGUAGE TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; READING; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; HUMANS;

EID: 0035987474     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610730290080317     Document Type: Article

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