No evidence that 'fast-mapping' benefits novel learning in healthy Older adults

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 52-59

  Greve, Andrea ^a   Cooper, Elisa ^a   Henson, Richard N ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Episodic encoding; Fast mapping; Hippocampus; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; EXPLICIT ENCODING; FAST MAPPING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PILOT STUDY; ADOLESCENT; AGE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902269331     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.05.011     Document Type: Article

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