Selective attention impairments in Alzheimer's disease: Evidence for dissociable components

Neuropsychology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 580-588

  Levinoff, Elise J ^a,b   Li, Karen Z H ^c   Murtha, Susan ^d   Chertkow, Howard ^a,b,e  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSOCIATION; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS;

EID: 3242735592     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.18.3.580     Document Type: Article

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