Was that part of the story or did i just think so? Age and cognitive status differences in inference and story recognition

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 295-322

  Bielak, Allison A M ^a   Hultsch, David F ^a   Kadlec, Helena ^a   Strauss, Esther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING STYLE; LINGUISTICS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SIGNAL DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WORD LIST RECALL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTENTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; SUGGESTION;

EID: 34248549066     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610730701319103     Document Type: Article

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