Revisiting the dedifferentiation hypothesis with longitudinal multi-cohort data

Intelligence

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 381-392

  de Frias, Cindy M ^a   Lövdén, Martin ^b   Lindenberger, Ulman ^b   Nilsson, Lars Göran ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aging; Dedifferentiation hypothesis; Multi cohort design

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247164623     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2006.07.011     Document Type: Article

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