The protective effect of educational level varies as a function of the difficulty of the memory task in ageing.
This study aimed to explore the effects of age and educational level on recall performance and organisational strategies used during recall as a function of the level of memory task difficulty. Younger (n = 55, age range = 20–39 years) and older (n = 45, age range = 65–75 years) adults learned a wor...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Ageing Vol. 19; no. 4; pp. 1407 - 1416 |
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Springer Nature
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