A systematic review of cognitive failures in daily life: Healthy populations

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 63, Issue , 2016, Pages 29-42

  Carrigan, Nicole ^a   Barkus, Emma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognitive failures; Cognitive failures questionnaire; Everyday cognition; Everyday functioning; Subjective cognition

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ATTENTION; BODY MOVEMENT; COGNITION; COGNITIVE FAILURE; CONFUSION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LANGUAGE ABILITY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL STRESS; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSONALITY; SELF REPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84957585384     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.01.010     Document Type: Review

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