Effects of stimulus predictability and interstimulus gap on saccades in Alzheimer's disease

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 235-243

  Abel, Larry A ^a   Unverzagt, Fred ^b   Yee, Robert D ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Antisaccade; Dementia; Gap task; Latency; Saccade

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES;

EID: 0036249793     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000057702     Document Type: Article

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