What does the WMS-III tell us about memory changes with normal aging?

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 89-96

  Haaland, Kathleen Y ^a   Price, Larry ^b   Larue, Asenath ^b  

^a VA Medical Center   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aging; Encoding; Memory; Retrieval; Storage; WMS III

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RECALL; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; SAMPLE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; STANDARDIZATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 0037246335     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617703910101     Document Type: Review

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