Monitoring One's Own Forgetting in Younger and Older Adults

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 631-635

  Halamish, Vered ^a   McGillivray, Shannon ^b   Castel, Alan D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Forgetting; Memory; Metacognition; Metamemory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE; RECALL; WORD LIST RECALL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; COGNITION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; SELF CONCEPT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052872162     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022852     Document Type: Article

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