Episodic memory change in late adulthood: Generalizability across samples and performance indices

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 768-778

  Dixon, Roger A ^a   Wahlin, Åke ^b   Maitland, Scott B ^c   Hultsch, David F ^d   Hertzog, Christopher ^e   Bäckman, Lars ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^e GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; PERFORMANCE; RECALL; SAMPLE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 6344285242     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195867     Document Type: Article

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