Gender differences and cognition among older adults

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 78-88

  Parsons, Thomas D ^a   Rizzo, Albert R ^b   Van Der Zaag, Cheryl ^b   McGee, Jocelyn S ^b   Buckwalter, J Galen ^c  

^a FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognition; Common variance; Gender differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COVARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; RESPONSE TIME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 17144366253     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13825580590925125     Document Type: Article

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