Executive functioning in healthy elderly Chinese people
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Executive functioning in healthy elderly Chinese people.
This study aimed to explore the executive function of healthy elderly Chinese people. A sample of 58 healthy Chinese aged 60 and over was recruited from Guangzhou in China. They were divided into two age groups, a younger age group (aged 60-70) and an older age group (aged over 70). Executive function was measured by a battery of seven tests which were assumed to capture specific components of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0887-6177
DOI: 10.1016/j.acn.2007.01.028