Categorical organization in free recall across culture and age

Gerontology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 314-323

  Gutchess, Angela H ^a,f   Yoon, Carolyn ^b   Luo, Ting ^c   Feinberg, Fred ^b   Hedden, Trey ^d   Jing, Qicheng ^c   Nisbett, Richard E ^a   Park, Denise C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Categorization; Cognition; Culture; Memory; Recall

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CHINA; CHINESE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748747758     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000094613     Document Type: Article

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