Adult Age Trends in the Relations Among Cognitive Abilities

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 453-460

  Tucker Drob, Elliot M ^a   Salthouse, Timothy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; cognitive abilities; dedifferentiation; intelligence; measurement invariance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL CAPACITY; RECALL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; APTITUDE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 46849114700     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.23.2.453     Document Type: Article

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