Aging and visual short-term memory: Effects of object type and information load

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 35-54

  Vaughan, Leslie ^a   Hartman, Marilyn ^a  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Information load; Object type; Short term memory; Visual; Visual search

Indexed keywords

EID: 73649108255     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: 17444128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13825580903009063     Document Type: Article

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