Relationships among age, conditioned stimulus-unconditioned stimulus interval, and neuropsychological test performance

Neuropsychology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 90-102

  Woodruff Pak, Diana S ^a   Jaeger, Marianne E ^a   Gorman, Candace ^a   Wesnes, Keith A ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Temple University ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; BLINKING; COGNITION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032900133     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.13.1.90     Document Type: Article

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