Effects of Age on Contextually Mediated Associations in Paired Associate Learning

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 846-857

  Provyn, Jennifer P ^a   Sliwinski, Martin J ^a   Howard, Marc W ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

associative learning; contextual learning; episodic memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PROBABILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING;

EID: 38649087013     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.22.4.846     Document Type: Article

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