Differences in acquisition, not retention, largely contribute to sex differences in multitrial word recall performance

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 768-772

  Krueger, Lacy E ^a   Salthouse, Timothy A ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY COMMERCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Memory; Sex differences; Verbal learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955921597     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.06.024     Document Type: Article

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