Psychometric Properties of Within-Person Across-Session Variability in Accuracy of Cognitive Performance

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Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 494-501

  Salthouse, Timothy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; cognition; variability

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMETRY; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84868648248     PISSN: 10731911     EISSN: 15523489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073191112438744     Document Type: Article

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