How do verbal distractors influence age-related operation span performance? A manipulation of inhibitory control demands

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 163-175

  Zeintl, Melanie ^a   Kliegel, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WORD LIST RECALL; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; COMPUTERS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LANGUAGE; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; PROBLEM SOLVING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 33847767190     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610730701192815     Document Type: Article

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