Effect of age on forward and backward digit spans

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 140-149

  Grégoire, Jacques ^a   Van der Linden, Martial ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOMETRY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 0030837515     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13825589708256642     Document Type: Article

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