It's time to pay attention to attention in aging

Learning and Memory

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 151-152

  McGaughy, Jill ^a   Eichenbaum, Howard ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; AMNESIA; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGING; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 0036667082     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.52902     Document Type: Note

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