Does expanded retrieval produce benefits over equal-interval spacing? Explorations of spacing effects in healthy aging and early stage Alzheimer's disease

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-31

  Balota, David A ^a,b   Duchek, Janet M ^a   Sergent Marshall, Susan D ^a   Roediger III, Henry L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Alzheimer's disease; Memory; Retrieval

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEMORY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; RECALL; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CUES; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33747077414     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.21.1.19     Document Type: Article

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