Age degradation in top-down processing: Identifying objects from canonical and noncanonical viewpoints

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 203-216

  Dror, Itiel E ^a   Kosslyn, Stephen M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PERSONALITY TEST; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 0031836182     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/036107398244210     Document Type: Article

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