Selective review of cognitive aging
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Selective review of cognitive aging.
Research concerned with relations between adult age and cognitive functioning is briefly reviewed. The coverage is necessarily selective, and is organized in terms of five major questions. These are what abilities are related to age, how many distinct influences are contributing to the relations between age and cognitive functioning, do the differences between people increase with advancing age...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1355-6177,1469-7661
DOI: 10.1017/s1355617710000706