Age differences in memory-load interference effects in syntactic processing

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Kemper, Susan ^a   Herman, Ruth E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY LOAD INTERFERENCE; MEMORY LOAD MATCHING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTACTIC PROCESSING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 33751580345     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/61.6.P327     Document Type: Article

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