The nature of age-related decline on the reading span task

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 391-398

  Meguro, Yuko ^a   Fujii, Toshikatsu ^a   Yamadori, Atsushi ^a   Tsukiura, Takashi ^a   Suzuki, Kyoko ^a   Okuda, Jiro ^a   Osaka, Mariko ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0033930934     PISSN: 13803395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/1380-3395(200006)22:3;1-V;FT391     Document Type: Article

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