Meta-analyses of age-cognition relations in adulthood: Estimates of linear and nonlinear age effects and structural models

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 231-249

  Verhaeghen, Paul ^a,c   Salthouse, Timothy A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; RECALL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ORIENTATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0031278215     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.122.3.231     Document Type: Article

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