Ageing and word processing competence: compensation or compilation?
Composition and compilation were examined as two alternative hypotheses relating to ‘cognitive competence’ in older adults. Techniques of molar equivalence–molecular decomposition (ME–MD) and molecular equivalence–molar analysis (ME–MA) were used to investigate performance of experienced (over 100 h...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 89; no. 4; pp. 579 - 598 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
November 1998
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