Priming effects from young-old to very old age on a Word-Stem Completion task: Minimizing explicit contamination

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 86-107

  Spaan, Pauline E J ^a   Raaijmakers, Jeroen G W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Explicit contamination; Implicit memory; Priming; Very old age; Word stem completion

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 78650564624     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: 17444128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2010.511146     Document Type: Article

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