Aging and Fluency-Based Illusions in Recognition Memory

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 595-603

  Thapar, Anjali ^a   Westerman, Deanne L ^b  

^a BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

age differences; false memory; fluency; illusions; recognition memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSE MEMORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRESSION, PSYCHOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349289534     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016575     Document Type: Article

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