Behavioral slowing with age: Boundary conditions of the generalized slowing model

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1996, Pages

  Swearer, Joan M ^a   Kane, Kevin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 0029927036     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/51B.4.P189     Document Type: Article

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