Executive functioning in older adults with mild cognitive impairment: MCI has effects on planning, but not on inhibition

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 557-570

  Zhang, Yanmin ^a,b   Han, Buxin ^a   Verhaeghen, Paul ^b   Nilsson, Lars Göran ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAZE TEST; PLANNING; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION DISORDERS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 36448935331     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: 17444128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13825580600788118     Document Type: Article

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