Flynn effects on sub-factors of episodic and semantic memory: Parallel gains over time and the same set of determining factors

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2174-2180

  Rönnlund, Michael ^a   Nilsson, Lars Göran ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cohort factors; Episodic memory; Flynn effects; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EPISODIC MEMORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; RECOGNITION; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 67349119196     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.11.007     Document Type: Article

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