Self-Referencing Enhances Memory Specificity With Age

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 636-646

  Hamami, Ayala ^a   Serbun, Sarah J ^a   Gutchess, Angela H ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognition; Memory; Self; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENERAL MEMORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; RECOGNITION; REFERENCE MEMORY; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REFERENCING; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SPECIFIC MEMORY; VERBAL INFORMATION; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052913259     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022626     Document Type: Article

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