Aging and working memory inside and outside the focus of attention: Dissociations of availability and accessibility

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 703-724

  Vaughan, Leslie ^a,e   Basak, Chandramallika ^b,c   Hartman, Marilyn ^a   Verhaeghen, Paul ^b,d  

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

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Age differences; Context memory; Focus of attention; Focus switching; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55749111893     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: 17444128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13825580802061645     Document Type: Article

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