Patterns of cognitive decline in aged rhesus monkeys

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 25-34

  Herndon, James G ^a   Moss, Mark B ^a,b   Rosene, Douglas L ^a,b   Killiany, Ronald J ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Delayed non matching; Delayed recognition span; Learning; Macaca mulatta; Memory; Monkey; Reversal learning; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SPATIAL MEMORY;

AGING; ANIMALS; COGNITION; COLOR; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; REVERSAL LEARNING;

EID: 0030765344     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(96)02256-5     Document Type: Article

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