What predicts the own-age bias in face recognition memory?

Social Cognition

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 97-109

  He, Yi ^a   Ebner, Natalie C ^a   Johnson, Marcia K ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79751482216     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.2011.29.1.97     Document Type: Article

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