Spatial orienting of attention in adult and aged rhesus monkeys

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 898-904

  Baxter, Mark G ^a   Voytko, Mary Lou ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; RHESUS MONKEY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTENTION; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0029858268     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.5.898     Document Type: Article

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