Executive functioning in healthy elderly Chinese people

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 501-511

  Lin, Han ^a   Chan, Raymond C K ^a   Zheng, Liuning ^a   Yang, Tianxiao ^a   Wang, Ya ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese; Executive function; Healthy aging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHINESE; CHINESE LETTER NUMBER SPAN; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GROUPS BY AGE; HAYLING SENTENCE COMPLETION TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MONOTONE COUNTING TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PLANNING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENESCENCE; SIX ELEMENT TASK; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; VARIANCE; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

EID: 34249283017     PISSN: 08876177     EISSN: 18735843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acn.2007.01.028     Document Type: Article

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