Meeting Mr Davis vs Mr Davin: Effects of name frequency on learning proper names in young and older adults

Memory

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 366-374

  James, Lori E ^a   Fogler, Kethera A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD LIST RECALL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NAMES;

EID: 34248151497     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210701307077     Document Type: Conference Paper

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