Correlates of individual, and age-related, differences in short-term learning

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 231-240

  Zhang, Zhiyong ^a   Davis, Hasker P ^b   Salthouse, Timothy A ^a   Tucker Drob, Elliot M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

General learning ability; Growth curve models; Intelligence; Spatial learning; Verbal learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548032353     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2007.01.004     Document Type: Article

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