Examining the locus of age effects on complex span tasks

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 562-572

  McCabe, Jennifer ^a,b   Hartman, Marilyn ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0141629767     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.18.3.562     Document Type: Article

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