Cognitive Functioning in the Baby Boomers: Longitudinal and Cohort Effects

The Baby Boomers Grow Up: Contemporary Perspectives on Midlife

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 205-234

  Willis, Sherry L ^a   Schaie, K Warner ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315820958-17     Document Type: Chapter

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