Performance of healthy, older adults on the Tower of London-Revised: Associations with verbal and nonverbal abilities

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-19

  Zook, Nancy ^a   Welsh, Marilyn C ^b   Ewing, Vanessa ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33645342203     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13825580490904183     Document Type: Article

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