A new look at retest learning in older adults: Learning in the absence of item-specific effects

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 470-473

  Yang, Lixia ^a   Reed, Maureen ^a   Russo, Frank A ^a   Wilkinson, Andrea ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Inductive reasoning; Item specific effects; Older adults; Perceptual speed; Retest learning; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; VELOCITY; ANXIETY DISORDER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VISION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 67650717458     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbp040     Document Type: Article

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