Intraindividual coupling of daily stress and cognition

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 545-557

  Sliwinski, Martin J ^a   Smyth, Joshua M ^a   Hofer, Scott M ^b   Stawski, Robert S ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognition; Intraindividual variability; Stress; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; RELIABILITY; RESPONSE TIME; STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING; SICK ROLE; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33749004807     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.21.3.545     Document Type: Article

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