The nature of age-related decline on the performance of the reading span task

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-22

  Yamadori, A ^a   Ashina, Y ^a   Fujii, T ^a   Tsukiura, T ^a   Okuda, J ^a   Osaka, M ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

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