The Associative Deficit in Older Adult Memory: Recognition of Pairs Is Not Improved by Repetition

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 501-506

  Overman, Amy A ^a   Becker, James T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR THE NEURAL BASIS OF COGNITION   (United States)

Author keywords

age related memory impairment; associative deficit; Controlled processing; episodic memory; list discrimination

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; RECOGNITION; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66549128446     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015086     Document Type: Article

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