Elucidating the effects of ageing on remembering perceptually distorted word pairs

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 186-205

  Heinrich, Antje ^a,b   Schneider, Bruce A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Paired associate memory; Speech perception in noise; Stream segregation; Young and old listeners

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECALL; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78651353776     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2010.492621     Document Type: Article

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