Strategy transitions during cognitive skill learning in younger and older adults: Effects of interitem confusability

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2106-2117

  White, Andrea S ^a   Cerella, John ^b   Hoyer, William J ^b  

^a KENYON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ALPHABET ARITHMETIC EQUATION; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; COGNITION; CONFUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESPONSE TIME; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING;

EID: 38149089456     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03192942     Document Type: Article

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