Age Differences in the organization and acquisition-forgetting processes in a multi-free- recall task

Current Psychology Letters: Behaviour, Brain and Cognition

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-11

  Sauzéon, Hélène ^a   Claverie, Bernard ^b   N'Kaoua, Bernard ^c  

^a Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives (EA 487)   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c NONE   (France)

Author keywords

Acquisition process; Aging; Forgetting process; Learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011343076     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13796100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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