Release from implicit interference in memory and metamemory: Older adults know that they can't let go

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Eakin, Deborah K ^a,b   Hertzog, Christopher ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 33751581062     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/61.6.P340     Document Type: Article

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