No Age Differences in Complex Memory Search: Older Adults Search as Efficiently as Younger Adults

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 105-115

  Lange, Elke B ^a   Verhaeghen, Paul ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

encoding strategy; general slowing; memory search; serial position effect; short term memory

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MALE; RESPONSE TIME; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SHORT TERM MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64649099602     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013751     Document Type: Article

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