Individual Differences and Reliability of Paired Associates Learning in Younger and Older Adults

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1001-1006

  Rast, Philippe ^a   Zimprich, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

age differences; individual differences; learning; reliability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; RELIABILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75149144407     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016138     Document Type: Article

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