Interaction of Blood Pressure and Adult Age in Memory Search and Visual Search Performance

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 241-254

  Madden, David J ^a   Langley, Linda K ^a   Thurston, Rebecca C ^a   Whiting, Wythe L ^a   Blumenthal, James A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLOOD PRESSURE; COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 1642451746     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/anec.10.4.241.28973     Document Type: Article

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