Age Dissociates Recency and Lag Recency Effects in Free Recall

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 530-540

  Kahana, Michael J ^a   Howard, Marc W ^a   Zaromb, Franklin ^a   Wingfield, Arthur ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PERSONALITY TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PROBABILITY LEARNING; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VERBAL LEARNING; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 85047673235     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.28.3.530     Document Type: Article

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