Mechanisms of age-related decline in memory search across the adult life Span

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2396-2404

  Hills, Thomas T ^a   Mata, Rui ^b,c   Wilke, Andreas ^d   Samanez Larkin, Gregory R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^d CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age related cognitive decline; Animal fluency; Executive control; Search; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SEMANTICS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BAYES THEOREM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84878994468     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0032272     Document Type: Article

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