Conscious and unconscious lexical retrieval blocking in younger and older adults

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 537-550

  Logan, Jessica M ^a   Balota, David A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; VISUAL ACUITY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0141853259     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.18.3.537     Document Type: Article

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