Comparing Memory Skill Maintenance Across the Life Span: Preservation in Adults, Increase in Children

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 227-238

  Brehmer, Yvonne ^a,b,c   Li, Shu Chen ^b   Straube, Benjamin ^a   Stoll, Gundula ^a   von Oertzen, Timo ^a,b   Müller, Viktor ^a,b   Lindenberger, Ulman ^a,b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

cognitive intervention; episodic memory; life span development; plasticity; skill maintenance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LIFESPAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; RECALL; SCHOOL CHILD; SENESCENCE; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 46849083480     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.23.2.227     Document Type: Article

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