Memory for Weather Information in Younger and Older Adults: Tests of Verbatim and Gist Memory.
Background/Study Context: Memory for specific, verbatim details tends to decline with age, and reliance on gist-based information increases. However, instructions that direct attention toward certain types of information can benefit memory accuracy for that information. Previous work has examined gi...
| Publicado en: | Experimental Aging Research Vol. 45; no. 3; pp. 252 - 266 |
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| Formato: | pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
May/Jun2019
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