Short-term improvement on a visual-spatial task after music listening in alzheimer’s disease: A group study

Activities, Adaptation and Aging

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 37-50

  Johnson, Julene K ^a   Shaw, Gordon L ^b   Vuong, My ^b   Vuong, Sydni ^b   Cotman, Carl W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer s disease; Cognitive improvement; Music; Visual spatial

Indexed keywords

EID: 29044435803     PISSN: 01924788     EISSN: 15444368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J016v26n03_03     Document Type: Article

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