Short-term fluctuations in elderly people's sensorimotor functioning predict text and spatial memory performance: The MacArthur successful aging studies

Gerontology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 100-116

  Li, Shu Chen ^a   Aggen, Steven H ^b   Nesselroade, John R ^c   Baltes, Paul B ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive aging; Intraindividual variability fluctuation; Memory; Neuromodulation; Neuromotor noise; Sensorimotor performance

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; MOTONEURON; NEUROMODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WALKING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPACE PERCEPTION; STATISTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0035091641     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000052782     Document Type: Article

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