Is age kinder to the initially more able?: Yes, and no

Intelligence

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 49-59

  Gow, Alan J ^a   Johnson, Wendy ^a   Mishra, Gita ^b   Richards, Marcus ^b   Kuh, Diana ^b   Deary, Ian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive aging; Cohort study; Latent growth curve modeling; Longitudinal; Prior cognitive ability

Indexed keywords

EID: 83955163653     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2011.10.007     Document Type: Article

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