Is procedural memory relatively spared from age effects?

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 883-892

  Churchill, James D ^a,b   Stanis, Jessica J ^a   Press, Cyrus ^a   Kushelev, Michael ^a   Greenough, William T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; F344 BN; Learning; Memory; Performance deficits; Rat

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MEMORY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SENESCENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0142075861     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-4580(02)00194-X     Document Type: Article

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