The Development of Episodic Memory: Lifespan Lessons

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 148-155

  Shing, Yee Lee ^a,b   Lindenberger, Ulman ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Binding; Child development; Episodic memory; Lifespan psychology; Strategy use

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955787307     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-8606.2011.00170.x     Document Type: Article

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