Age-Related Differences in Arithmetic Problem-Verification Strategies

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Duverne, Sandrine ^a   Lemaire, Patrick ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 2342450553     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/59.3.P135     Document Type: Article

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