Specific AD impairments in concurrent performance of two memory tasks

Cortex

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 858-865

  MacPherson, Sarah E ^a   Sala, Sergio Della ^a   Logie, Robert H ^a   Wilcock, Gordon K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Alzheimer's disease; Dual task; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WORKING MEMORY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REFERENCE VALUES; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 34948882326     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70685-3     Document Type: Article

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