Do age-related differences in episodic feeling of knowing accuracy depend on the timing of the judgement?

Memory

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 860-873

  MacLaverty, Stephanie N ^a   Hertzog, Christopher ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; Episodic memory; Feeling of knowing; Metacognition; Remember know

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71049156165     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210903374537     Document Type: Article

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