Assessment of cognitive slowing and error monitoring in healthy older subjects on a computerized maze learning task;Ralentissement cognitif dans le vieillissement : fonctions exécutives et apprentissage procédural lors d'une tâche informatisée de labyrinthe

Annales Medico-Psychologiques

Volumn 164, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 463-469

  Boulanger, M ^a   Snyder, P J ^a,b   Cohen, H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Canonical correlation; Executive functions; Maze leasing; Procedural learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ERROR; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GROUPS BY AGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; LEARNING TEST; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL DETERIORATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; MONITORING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; RATING SCALE; RECALL; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SKILL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 33747093724     PISSN: 00034487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amp.2005.01.001     Document Type: Article

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