On a recognition task in which some distractors were half-familiar
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1School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia.
International Journal of Aging & Human Development
|April 16, 1998
Abstract:
Models are suggested for the task of recognizing word-pairs, where the distractors may be pairs of new words, or may be a new word paired with a previously-seen word. These models are relevant to an experiment recently reported by Isingrini et al., and suggest rather different conclusions to theirs--namely, that the elderly differ from the young in both learning and response selection.

