Age differences in working memory - The roles of storage and selective access

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 563-569

  Oberauer, Klaus ^a   Wendland, Mirko ^a   Kliegl, Reinhold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0038648761     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196097     Document Type: Article

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