Context processing and context maintenance in healthy aging and early stage dementia of the Alzheimer's type

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 33-46

  Braver, Todd S ^a   Rush, Beth K ^b   Satpute, Ajay B ^c   Racine, Caroline A ^a   Barch, Deanna M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 15244348774     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.20.1.33     Document Type: Article

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