Social participation attenuates decline in perceptual speed in old and very old age

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 423-434

  Lövdén, Martin ^a   Ghisletta, Paolo ^b   Lindenberger, Ulman ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Activity; Cognition; Dual change score model; Engaged lifestyle; Old

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; LIFESTYLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS;

EID: 27644434455     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.20.3.423     Document Type: Article

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