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Peer reviewedHilbert, Nancy M.; And Others – Educational Gerontology, 1976
Subjects (N=43) aged 50 and more were tested on a Sternberg recognition-memory task to explore the relative effects of depression and altered brain function on short-term memory in later life. Many performance differnces were best accounted for by the additive effects of depression and educational background, rather than by either variable…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Depression (Psychology), Developmental Psychology, Experiments
