Age differences in the correction processes of context-induced biases: when correction succeeds

Mo Wang1, Yiwei Chen

  • 1Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA.

Psychology and Aging
|September 24, 2004
PubMed

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