Age-Related Deficits in Associative Memory: The Influence of Impaired Strategic Retrieval

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 93-103

  Cohn, Melanie ^a,b   Emrich, Stephen M ^a   Moscovitch, Morris ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

aging; associative memory; familiarity; recall to reject; recollection

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROBIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS;

EID: 43049136624     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.23.1.93     Document Type: Article

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