Cognitive dedifferentiation with increasing age and proximity of death: Within-person evidence from the seattle longitudinal study

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 311-323

  Hülür, Gizem ^a   Ram, Nilam ^b,c   Willis, Sherry L ^d   Warner Schaie, K ^d   Gerstorf, Denis ^a,b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive aging; Dedifferentiation; Longitudinal; Terminal decline

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEDIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; UNITED STATES; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; APTITUDE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; INDIVIDUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; THINKING; VERY ELDERLY; WASHINGTON; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; APTITUDE; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; RESEARCH DESIGN; THINKING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WASHINGTON; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930761691     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0039260     Document Type: Article

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