Does childhood intelligence predict variation in cognitive change in later life?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1551-1559

  Bourne, Victoria J ^a   Fox, Helen C ^b   Deary, Ian J ^c   Whalley, Lawrence J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Childhood cognitive ability; Cognitive decline

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947330756     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.10.030     Document Type: Article

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