Between-Person and Within-Person Associations Among Processing Speed, Attention Switching, and Working Memory in Younger and Older Adults

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 194-214

  Stawski, Robert S ^a   Sliwinski, Martin J ^b   Hofer, Scott M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84881049030     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0361073X.2013.761556     Document Type: Article

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