Memory and Learning in Adults

Comprehensive Handbook of Psychological Assessment: Intellectual and Neuropsychological Assessment

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 217-236

  Deluca, John ^a,b   Chiaravalloti, Nancy D ^a,b  

^a KESSLER FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult memory and learning; Clinical assessment of memory; Criterion based and normative based assessment; Quantitative psychometric assessment; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957638566     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780471726753.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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