Aging and Integrating Spatial Mental Models

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 569-579

  Copeland, David E ^a   Radvansky, Gabriel A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

integration; mental model; picture; spatial; working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDENTITY; INTEGRATION; LEARNING; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; SPATIAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; APTITUDE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING;

EID: 34948894472     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.22.3.569     Document Type: Article

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