Providing Support for Distinctive Processing: The Isolation Effect in Young and Older Adults

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 744-751

  Smith, Rebekah E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Distinctiveness; Isolation effect; Memory; Similarity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIATION; DISTINCTIVENESS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FISH; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOLATION EFFECT; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MEMORY; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; SUPPORT GROUP; WORD LIST RECALL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052881572     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022715     Document Type: Article

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