Age-related differences in immediate serial recall: Dissociating chunk formation and capacity

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 724-737

  Naveh Benjamin, Moshe ^a   Cowan, Nelson ^a   Kilb, Angela ^a   Chen, Zhijian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLLEGE; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 34547893805     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193310     Document Type: Article

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