Only time will tell: Cross-sectional studies offer no solution to the age-brain-cognition triangle: Comment on salthouse (2011)

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 790-795

  Raz, Naftali ^a   Lindenberger, Ulman ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Brain; Cognition; Longitudinal; Mediation

Indexed keywords

AGING; BRAIN; COGNITIVE DEFECT; HUMAN; NOTE; PATHOLOGY;

AGING; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS;

EID: 80052222668     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024503     Document Type: Note

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