Age-Related Deficits in Reality Monitoring of Action Memories

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 646-656

  McDaniel, Mark A ^a   Lyle, Keith B ^b   Butler, Karin M ^c   Dornburg, Courtney C ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; imagination inflation; memory; reality monitoring

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEMORY; RECOGNITION; SENSORY ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; AGE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EGO; MEMORY DISORDER; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; JUDGMENT; MEMORY DISORDERS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PERCEPTION; REALITY TESTING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 54049154647     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013083     Document Type: Article

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