Does Differential Strategy Use Account for Age-Related Deficits in Working-Memory Performance?

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 82-92

  Bailey, Heather ^a   Dunlosky, John ^a   Hertzog, Christopher ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive aging; strategy; working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; READING; RECALL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64649096710     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014078     Document Type: Article

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