The Role of Forgetting Rate in Producing a Benefit of Expanded Over Equal Spaced Retrieval in Young and Older Adults

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 661-670

  Maddox, Geoffrey B ^a   Balota, David A ^a   Coane, Jennifer H ^a   Duchek, Janet M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Expanded retrieval; Memory; Spacing effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; EXPERIMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PERFORMANCE; TAXONOMY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CUES; HUMANS; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052896602     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022942     Document Type: Article

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