Cognitive performance inconsistency: Intraindividual change and variability

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 623-633

  Ram, Nilam ^a   Stollery, Brian ^b   Rabbitt, Patrick ^c   Nesselroade, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Growth curves; Memory speed; Multivariate; Nonlinear

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; READING; RECOGNITION; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 31044432336     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.20.4.623     Document Type: Article

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