Prospective memory and aging: Preserved spontaneous retrieval, but impaired deactivation, in older adults

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1232-1240

  Scullin, Michael K ^a   Bugg, Julie M ^a   McDaniel, Mark A ^a   Einstein, Gilles O ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FURMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Directed forgetting; Interference inhibition in memory retrieval; Memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; REACTION TIME; RECALL; RECOGNITION; STROOP TEST; VISION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; CUES; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTENTION; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STROOP TEST; TRAIL MAKING TEST; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856431562     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-011-0106-z     Document Type: Article

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