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Experimental Aging Research
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Age-Related Differences in the Impact of Prior Knowledge on Recognition Performance: A Face Recognition Study

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Pages 154-166 | Received 06 Jul 2017, Accepted 01 Jun 2018, Published online: 14 Mar 2019

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