Learning and memory for hierarchical relationships in the monkey: Effects of aging

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 887-897

  Rapp, Peter R ^a   Kansky, Mary T ^b   Eichenbaum, Howard ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; RHESUS MONKEY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; REFERENCE VALUES; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 0029967030     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.5.887     Document Type: Article

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