A diffusion model analysis of adult age differences in episodic and semantic long-term memory retrieval

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 101-117

  Spaniol, Julia ^a,c   Madden, David J ^a   Voss, Andreas ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Context memory; Reaction time; Recognition test

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33244470158     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.32.1.101     Document Type: Article

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