Verbal and figural recognition memory: Task development and age associations

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 359-385

  Golski, Stephanie ^a   Zonderman, Alan B ^a   Malamut, Barbara L ^b   Resnick, Susan M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; RELIABILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0031654557     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/036107398244193     Document Type: Article

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