Aging and vocabulary scores: A meta-analysis

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 332-339

  Verhaeghen, Paul ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; APTITUDE TEST; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LINGUISTICS; META ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0038651114     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.18.2.332     Document Type: Article

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