Cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships among age, cognition, and processing speed

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 18-33

  Sliwinski, Martin ^a   Buschke, Herman ^b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MODEL; PATHOGENESIS; PERFORMANCE; RECALL; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032931647     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.14.1.18     Document Type: Article

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