The Cognitive Reserve Hypothesis: A Longitudinal Examination of Age-Associated Declines in Reasoning and Processing Speed

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 431-446

  Tucker Drob, Elliot M ^a   Johnson, Kathy E ^b   Jones, Richard N ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Hebrew Senior Life   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; brain reserve; cognitive decline; cognitive reserve; education

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; APTITUDE; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEW ENGLAND; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; VOCABULARY;

EID: 63349110902     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014012     Document Type: Article

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