The capacity of attention and simultaneous perception of objects: A group study of Huntington's disease patients

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 3272-3284

  Finke, Kathrin ^a   Schneider, Werner X ^a   Redel, Petra ^a   Dose, Matthias ^b   Kerkhoff, Georg ^c   Müller, Hermann J ^a   Bublak, Peter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Huntington Center South   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive deficits; Experimental psychology; Neurodegenerative disorders; Object recognition; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34948908678     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.06.006     Document Type: Article

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