the DynAmic effects of Age-relAteD stereotype threAt on explicit AnD implicit memory performAnce in olDer ADults
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559 © 2014 Guilford Publications, Inc. We would like to thank Robert Bjork, Janet Metcalfe, and Sarah Barber for insightful comments, Yaakov Stern for help recruiting participants, Benjamin Storm and Shannon McGillivray for assistance with data collection and analysis, and all of the people who participated in this study. Portions of this research were presented at the 16th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, April 2008, San Francisco, CA. Address correspondence to Teal Eich, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, Department of Neurology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY; E-mail: [email protected] EICH ET AL.
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