Memory scanning performance in healthy young adults, healthy older adults, and individuals with dementia of the Alzheimer type

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 260-272

  Ferraro, F Richard ^a   Balota, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0033492855     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/1382-5585(199912)06:04;1-B;FT260     Document Type: Article

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