Global and Domain-Specific Changes in Cognition Throughout Adulthood

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 331-343

  Tucker Drob, Elliot M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive aging; Common cause hypothesis; Dedifferentiation; Longitudinal change

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952597236     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021361     Document Type: Article

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