Collaborative Remembering in Older Adults: Age-Invariant Outcomes in the Context of Episodic Recall Deficits

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 532-545

  Henkel, Linda A ^a   Rajaram, Suparna ^b  

^a FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging and recall; Beliefs about collaboration; Collaborative memory; Collective memory; Retrieval organization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; COST; EPISODIC MEMORY; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEMORY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RECALL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052903160     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023106     Document Type: Article

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