Short-term memory binding deficits in Alzheimers disease

Brain

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1057-1066

  Parra, Mario A ^a   Abrahams, Sharon ^a   Fabi, Katia ^b   Logie, Robert ^a   Luzzi, Simona ^b   Sala, Sergio Della ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alzheimers disease; Memory binding; Verbal short term memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COLOR; HUMANS; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 65249095311     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awp036     Document Type: Article

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