What's cooking? -Cognitive training of executive function in the elderly

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue SEP, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Man Ying ^a   Chang, Chien Yu ^a   Su, Shou Yi ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cognitive aging; Cognitive training; Digit symbol coding; Executive function

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867064718     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00228     Document Type: Article

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