What needs to be explained to account for age-related effects on multiple cognitive variables?

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Salthouse, TA [1 ]
Ferrer-Caja, E [1 ]
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[1] Univ Virginia, Dept Psychol, Charlottesville, VA 22904 USA
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10.1037/0882-7974.18.1.91
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R4 [临床医学]; R592 [老年病学];
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1002 ; 100203 ; 100602 ;
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Structural equation methodology was used to investigate age-related influences across a number of cognitive variables in 204 adults ranging from 18 to 91 years of age with a hierarchical structure that contained 4 1st-order factors and 1 2nd-order common factor. Direct age relations were found to the common factor as well as to 1st-order speed and memory factors. Replicability of the findings was explored by investigating the same structure of age relations, using 2 different data sets, and a similar pattern was found in each. These results suggest that at least 3 statistically distinct types of age-related influences are operating on a wide variety of cognitive variables and presumably require separate explanatory mechanisms.
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