Cognitive integrity predicts transitive inference performance bias and success

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1314-1325

  Moses, Sandra N ^a   Villate, Christina ^a   Binns, Malcolm A ^a   Davidson, Patrick S R ^c   Ryan, Jennifer D ^a,b  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Learning; Memory; Relations; Transitive inference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGED; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COGNITION; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 42749096876     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.12.009     Document Type: Article

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