Older Adults' Strategic Superiority with Mental Multiplication: A Generation Effect Assessment

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 155-169

  Pesta, Bryan J ^a   Sanders, Raymond E ^a   Nemec, Rebecca J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COHORT EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; READING; THINKING;

EID: 0029891524     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610739608254004     Document Type: Article

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