Distractibility and Alzheimer disease: The "neglected" phenomenon

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-10

  Drago, Valeria ^a,b,c,e   Foster, Paul S ^a,d,e   Ferri, Raffaele ^b   Arico, Debora ^b,c   Lanuzza, Bartolo ^b   Heilman, Kenneth M ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OASI RESEARCH INSTITUTE IRCCS   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Malcom Randal Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Attentional bias; Distractibility; Line bisection; Top down bottom up attention

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STIMULUS;

EID: 52449104174     PISSN: 13872877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-2008-15101     Document Type: Article

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