Cognitive aging and training: The role of instructional coherence and advance organizers

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 164-186

  Wolfson, Natalie E ^a   Kraiger, Kurt ^a  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896368705     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0361073X.2014.882206     Document Type: Article

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