Remembering the past and imagining the future: Age-related differences between young, young-old and old-old

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 89-97

  De Beni, Rossana ^a   Borella, Erika ^a   Carretti, Barbara ^a   Zavagnin, Michela ^a   Lazzarini, Luciana ^a   Milojevi, Gordana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Autobiographic images; Episodic future thinking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FUTUROLOGY; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887077114     PISSN: 15940667     EISSN: 17208319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40520-013-0003-3     Document Type: Article

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