Intellectual functioning in old and very old age: Cross-Sectional results from the Berlin Aging Study

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 410-432

  Lindenberger, Ulman ^a   Baltes, Paul B ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL FACTOR;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY; SENESCENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BERLIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0030968619     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.12.3.410     Document Type: Article

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