Can patients with Alzheimer's disease learn a category implicitly?

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 816-827

  Bozoki, Andrea ^a   Grossman, Murray ^b   Smith, Edward E ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Alzheimer's disease; Categorization; Implicit memory

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LEARNING TEST; MALE; MEMORY; RECOGNITION; TRAINING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33644652467     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.08.001     Document Type: Article

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