Age and redintegration in immediate memory and their relationship to task difficulty

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1940-1953

  Neale, Kerry ^a   Tehan, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; RECALL; REDINTEGRATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 38149008826     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03192927     Document Type: Article

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