Formulation of the age-education index: Measuring age and education effects in neuropsychological performance

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-70

  Lam, Max ^a   Eng, Goi Khia ^a   Rapisarda, Attilio ^a   Subramaniam, Mythily ^a   Kraus, Michael ^b   Keefe, Richard S E ^b   Collinson, Simon Lowes ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Singapore)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Age; Education; Language; Neuropsychology

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHINESE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; COGNITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875337490     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0030548     Document Type: Article

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