Considering phasic alerting in Alzheimer's disease: Comment on Tales et al. (2006)

Neuropsychology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 757-760

  Festa, Elena K ^a   Ott, Brian R ^b   Heindel, William C ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Alerting; Alzheimer's disease; Attention; Dementia; Exogenous spatial orienting; Orienting; Phasic alerting; Precuing task; System interactions; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; DEMENTIA; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 33750971442     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.20.6.757     Document Type: Review

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