Working memory for item and temporal information in younger and older adults

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 574-600

  McCabe, Jennifer ^a,c   Hartman, Marilyn ^b  

^a MARIETTA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c GOUCHER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age differences; Cognition; Context memory; Temporal memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DATA ANALYSIS; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBALIZATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 49749138543     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: 17444128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13825580801956217     Document Type: Article

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