The effect of age on rule-based category learning

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 13, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 411-434

  Racine, Caroline ^a,c   Barch, Deanna ^a   Braver, Todd ^a   Noelle, David ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Box 1125 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33746889043     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: 17444128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13825580600574377     Document Type: Article

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