Aging can spare recollection-based retrieval monitoring: The importance of event distinctiveness

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 209-213

  Gallo, David A ^a   Cotel, Sivan C ^b   Moore, Christopher D ^c   Schacter, Daniel L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Criterial recollection; Distinctiveness; False recognition; Retrieval monitoring

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MEMORY DISORDER; RECALL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGING; ATTITUDE; CUES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33947630846     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.22.1.209     Document Type: Article

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