Timothy A. Salthouse
University of Virginia
295 Papers
4.5K Citations
Timothy A. Salthouse is an academic researcher from University of Virginia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cognition & Cognitive skill. The author has an hindex of 94, co-authored 295 publications. Previous affiliations of Timothy A. Salthouse include University of Michigan & Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Papers
Adult age differences in integrative spatial ability.
TL;DR: Results were interpreted as suggesting that one factor responsible for age differences in tests of spatial ability is an age-related reduction in the efficiency of executing operations responsible for the accurate and stable representation of spatial information.
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Within-Cohort Age-Related Differences in Cognitive Functioning
TL;DR: Comparisons of composite scores for five cognitive abilities in different people tested at different ages in different years revealed that within- cohort differences across ages were often as large as between-cohort Differences across ages.
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Computational and reasoning abilities in arithmetic: Cross-generational change in China and the United States
TL;DR: The authors found that a Chinese advantage over Americans was found for economically relevant computational and reasoning abilities in arithmetic for groups of 6th- and 12th-grade students matched or equated on general intelligence.
How general are the effects of trait anxiety and depressive symptoms on cognitive functioning
TL;DR: The results indicated that trait anxiety and depressive symptoms had significant relations at the highest level in the hierarchy of Cognitive abilities, but few relations of either characteristic were evident on the cognitive abilities, or on measures of working memory, after controlling influences at the g-factor level.
Shifting Levels of Analysis in the Investigation of Cognitive Aging
TL;DR: Questions can be raised regarding the progress that has been achieved in accounting for the well-documented negative relations between chronological age during adulthood and fluid or process aspects of adulthood.
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