Assessing the associative deficit of older adults in long-term and short-term/working memory

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 666-682

  Chen, Tina ^a   Naveh Benjamin, Moshe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Associative memory; Long term memory; Short term memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84873053216     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026943     Document Type: Article

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