Are there uniform age-related changes across tasks involving inhibitory control through access, deletion, and restraint functions? A preliminary investigation

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 392-418

  Feyereisen, Pierre ^a,b   Charlot, Valentine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b Faculty of Psychology   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; READING; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PILOT PROJECTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; READING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 50149098234     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610730802271880     Document Type: Article

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