Primate learning tasks reveal strong impairments in patients with presenile or senile dementia of the Alzheimer type

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1987, Pages 429-449

  Irle, Eva ^a   Kessler, Josef ^b   Markowitsch, Hans J ^b   Hofmann, Wolfgang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0023431967     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0278-2626(87)90138-2     Document Type: Article

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