Acquisition, recall, and forgetting of verbal information in long-term memory by young, middle-aged, and elderly individuals

Cortex

Volumn 39, Issue 4-5, 2003, Pages 1063-1091

  Davis, Hasker P ^a   Small, Scott A ^b   Stern, Yaakov ^b   Mayeux, Richard ^b   Feldstein, Simeon N ^c   Keller, Frederick R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Forgetting of verbal information in long term; Recall

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LIFESPAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0242300681     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70878-5     Document Type: Article

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