Meeting Mr. Farmer versus meeting a farmer: Specific effects of aging on learning proper names

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 515-522

  James, Lori E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING; MEMORY; OCCUPATION; RECALL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NAMES; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); OCCUPATIONS; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 4344714189     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.19.3.515     Document Type: Article

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