Alzheimer disease constricts the dynamic range of spatial attention in visual search

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1126-1135

  Parasuraman, Raja ^a   Greenwood, Pamela M ^a   Alexander, Gene E ^b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Alzheimer disease; Attention; Parietal cortex; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REVIEW; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VISION;

EID: 0034083330     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(00)00024-5     Document Type: Article

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