Long-term maintenance of retest learning in young Old and Oldest Old adults

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 608-611

  Yang, Lixia ^a,c   Krampe, Ralf T ^b,c  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Long term maintenance; Oldest old; Perceptual motor speed; Reasoning; Retest learning; Visual attention; Young old

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 69249240149     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbp063     Document Type: Article

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