Modality memory across the adult life span: Evidence for selective age- related olfactory deficits

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 63-82

  Larsson, Maria ^a,c   Bäckman, Lars ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM GERONTOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; SMELLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; TOUCH; VISUAL MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SMELL; TOUCH;

POMACANTHUS MACULOSUS;

EID: 2642695744     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/036107398244364     Document Type: Article

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