The relationship between age, processing speed, working memory capacity, and language comprehension

Memory

Volumn 13, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 403-413

  Waters, Gloria ^a   Caplan, David ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; VELOCITY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MICROCOMPUTERS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 19044372763     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210344000459     Document Type: Article

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