Constraints on general slowing: A meta-analysis using hierarchical linear models with random coefficients

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 164-175

  Sliwinski, Martin J ^a   Hall, Charles B ^b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MEMORY; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; META ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPONSE TIME; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISION;

AGED; AGING; COGNITION; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LINEAR MODELS; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0031976566     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.13.1.164     Document Type: Article

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