Age-related declines in context maintenance and semantic short-term memory

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 34-53

  Haarmann, Henk J ^a   Ashling, Gemma E ^b   Davelaar, Eddy J ^c   Usher, Marius ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 12844287686     PISSN: 02724987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724980443000214     Document Type: Article

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