The use of animal models to study the effects of aging on cognition

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue , 1997, Pages 339-370

  Gallagher, Michela ^a   Rapp, Peter R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Frontal lobe; Hippocampus; Medial temporal lobe; Memory

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; RODENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AGED; AGING; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; NERVE NET; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RODENTIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030639472     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.48.1.339     Document Type: Article

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