The executive decline hypothesis of cognitive aging: Do executive deficits qualify as differential deficits and do they mediate age-related memory decline?

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 9-31

  Crawford, John R ^c   Bryan, Janet ^b   Luszcz, Mary A ^c   Obonsawin, Marc C ^c   Stewart, Lesley ^a  

^a CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEGATIVE SYNDROME; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; RATING SCALE; RECALL; RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033923812     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/anec.7.1.9.806     Document Type: Article

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