1. Longitudinal Neuropsychological Performance of Cognitive SuperAgers.
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Gefen, Tamar, Shaw, Emily, Whitney, Kristen, Martersteck, Adam, Stratton, John, Rademaker, Alfred, Weintraub, Sandra, Mesulam, M.‐Marsel, and Rogalski, Emily
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BRAIN physiology ,AGING ,NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL tests ,MEMORY in old age ,T-test (Statistics) ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics - Abstract
The article reports on research which was conducted to investigate whether healthy patients aged 80 and above who were asked to memorize a list of words would do so at a slower rate than patients aged 50 to 60. Researchers evaluated several older subjects whose performance on several memory related tests was above average. They found that those individuals did not show any significant decline on any neuropsychological measures of memory, attention or executive function and that their performance on the memorization test was similar to younger subjects.
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- 2014
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