Contextual Interference Effects in Sequence Learning for Young and Older Adults

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 929-939

  Lin, Chien Ho Janice ^a   Wu, Allan D ^a   Udompholkul, Parima ^a,b   Knowlton, Barbara J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; CI effect; Serial reaction time task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTEXTUAL INTERFERENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 78650982154     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020196     Document Type: Article

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