Aging and situation model updating

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 158-166

  Radvansky, Gabriel A ^a   Copeland, David E ^a   Berish, Diane E ^b   Dijkstra, Katinka ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFORMATION; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0038006001     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/anec.10.2.158.14459     Document Type: Article

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