Longitudinal selectivity in aging populations: Separating mortality-associated versus experimental components in the Berlin Aging Study (BASE)

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2002, Pages

  Lindenberger, Ulman ^a   Singer, Tania ^a   Baltes, Paul B ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; EXPERIMENT; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERSONALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 0036841575     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/57.6.P474     Document Type: Article

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