Explicit contamination contributes to aging effects in episodic priming: Behavioral and ERP evidence

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Wegesin, Domonick J ^a,b   Ream, Justin M ^a   Stern, Yaakov ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPISODIC PRIMING; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SOCIOECONOMICS; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 9644268767     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/59.6.P317     Document Type: Article

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