An Internet Study of Prospective Memory Across Adulthood

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 767-774

  Logie, Robert H ^a   Maylor, Elizabeth A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aging; event based cueing; Internet; prospective memory; temporal uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNET; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROSPECTIVE MEMORY; RECALL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION; INTERNET; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349266334     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015479     Document Type: Article

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