The "zoom lens" of focal attention in visual search: Changes in aging and Alzheimer's disease

Cortex

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 512-519

  Rösler, Alexander ^a,b   Mapstone, Mark ^a,c   Hays Wicklund, Alissa ^a   Gitelman, Darren R ^a   Weintraub, Sandra ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Alzheimer's disease; Attention; Dementia; Visual search

Indexed keywords

DONEPEZIL;

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 21644432250     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70191-6     Document Type: Article

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