Aging and IQ effects on associative recognition and priming in item recognition

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 416-437

  McKoon, Gail ^a   Ratcliff, Roger ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Associative recognition; Item recognition; Priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857647460     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2011.12.001     Document Type: Article

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