Cognitive skill learning: Age-related differences in strategy shifts and speed of component operations

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 565-580

  Touron, Dayna R ^a   Hoyer, William J ^b   Cerella, John ^b  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALGORITHM; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 10044297079     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.19.4.565     Document Type: Article

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