Do working-memory executive components mediate the effects of age on strategy selection or on strategy execution? Insights from arithmetic problem solving

Psychological Research

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-38

  Duverne, Sandrine ^a,d   Lemaire, Patrick ^b   Vandierendonck, André ^c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 36448989641     PISSN: 03400727     EISSN: 14302772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-006-0071-5     Document Type: Article

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