Hyper-Binding: A Unique Age Effect

• Published in: Psychological science Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 399 - 405
• Main Authors: Campbell, Karen L., Hasher, Lynn, Thomas, Ruthann C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.03.2010; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Adult education; Age; Age differences; Aged; Ageing; Aging; Aging - psychology; Association Learning; Attention; Cognition; Comorbidity; Computer memory; Confidence interval; Cues; Decision making; Distraction; Experimental psychology; Female; Humans; Inhibition, Psychological; Male; Memory; Memory disorders; Mental Recall; Middle Aged; Older adults; Older people; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Reading; Seller financing; Semantics; Studies; Task performance; Visual task performance; Words; Young Adult; Young adults; inhibition; attention; binding; aging; associative memory

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