Accounting for age differences on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test: Decreased working memory, not inflexibility

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 385-399

  Hartman, Marilyn ^a   Bolton, Elisa ^a   Fehnel, Sheri E ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; SCORING SYSTEM; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0034824641     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.16.3.385     Document Type: Article

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