The effect of old age on the learning of supraspan sequences

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 251-260

  Turcotte, Josée ^a,e   Gagnon, Sylvain ^b   Poirier, Marie ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c City University   (Canada)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Hebb effect; Sequence learning; Serial recall; Supraspan sequence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HEBB SUPRASPAN LEARNING TASK; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RECALL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MIDDLE AGED; SEMANTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 22544443321     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.20.2.251     Document Type: Article

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