Adult Age Differences in Episodic Memory: Further Support for an Associative-Deficit Hypothesis

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 826-837

  Naveh Benjamin, Moshe ^a,b   Hussain, Zahra ^c   Guez, Jonathan ^b   Bar On, Maoz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; RECALL;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0142136704     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.29.5.826     Document Type: Article

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