The elements of cognitive aging : meta-analyses of age-related differences in processing speed and their consequences

This text brings together everything we know about aging and processing speed, in a vast quantitative overview. The topics include slowing in elementary mental tasks and tasks of executive control, mental slowing over the lifespan, and how age-related slowing impacts processing in more complex aspec...

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Weitere Titel:
elements of cognitive aging
1. Verfasser:
Verhaeghen, Paul
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Zusammenfassung:
This text brings together everything we know about aging and processing speed, in a vast quantitative overview. The topics include slowing in elementary mental tasks and tasks of executive control, mental slowing over the lifespan, and how age-related slowing impacts processing in more complex aspects of cognition.
Umfang:
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Anmerkungen:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Schlagworte:
Cognition > Age factors.
Ability, Influence of age on.
Aging.
Human beings.
Epidemiologic Research Design.
Psychological Techniques.
Mental Processes.
Nervous System Physiological Phenomena.
Research Design.
Growth and Development.
Psychophysiology.
Memory.
Adult.
Age Groups.
Methods.
Epidemiologic Methods.
Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena.
Behavioral Disciplines and Activities.
Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms.
Learning.
Physiological Phenomena.
Psychology.
Public Health.
Persons.
Quality of Health Care.
Investigative Techniques.
Environment and Public Health.
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation.
Delivery of Health Care.
Meta-Analysis as Topic.
Reaction Time.
Aged.
Memory, Short-Term.
Cognition.
Social Sciences
Psychology
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