Recall of Subject-Performed Tasks, Verbal Tasks, and Cognitive Activities Across the Adult Life Span: Parallel Age-Related Deficits

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 182-201

  Rönnlund, Michael ^a   Nyberg, Lars ^a   Bäckman, Lars ^b,c   Nilsson, Lars Göran ^d  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESPAN; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 10744228342     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/anec.10.3.182.16449     Document Type: Article

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