Behavioral genetic investigations of cognitive aging

Handbook of Behavior Genetics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 101-112

  Finkel, Deborah ^a   Reynolds, Chandra A ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTHEAST   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-76727-7_7     Document Type: Chapter

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