Sex differences in episodic memory: The where but not the why

Memory, Aging and the Brain: A Festschrift in Honour of Lars-Göran Nilsson

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 132-143

  Herlitz, Agneta ^a   Lovén, Johanna ^b   Thilers, Petra ^a   Rehnman, Jenny ^a  

^a AGING RESEARCH CENTER   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203866665     Document Type: Chapter

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