The Association Between Computer Use and Cognition Across Adulthood: Use It So You Won't Lose It?
Understanding the association between computer use and adult cognition has been limited until now by self-selected samples with restricted ranges of age and education. Here we studied effects of computer use in a large national sample (N = 2,671) of adults aged 32-84, assessing cognition with the Br...
| Publicado en: | Psychology & Aging Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 560 - 569 |
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American Psychological Association
September 2010
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