Age differences in tracking characters during narrative comprehension

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 769-778

  Noh, Soo Rim ^a   Stine Morrow, Elizabeth A L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NARRATIVE; READING; RECOGNITION; VISUAL ACUITY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349114042     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.37.6.769     Document Type: Article

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