Meeting Mr. Farmer Versus Meeting a Farmer: Specific Effects of Aging on Learning Proper Names.
Previous research testing age-related learning and memory problems specific to proper names has yielded mixed results. In the present experiments, young and older participants saw faces of previously unknown people identified by name and occupation. On subsequent presentations of each picture, parti...
| Published in: | Psychology & Aging Vol. 19; no. 3; pp. 515 - 523 |
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American Psychological Association
September 2004
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