Adult Age Differences in Multiple Cognitive Functions: Differentiation, Dedifferentiation, or Process-Specific Change?

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 727-745

  Zelinski, Elizabeth M ^a,b   Lewis, Kayan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RECALL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0347252316     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.18.4.727     Document Type: Review

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