Memory Efficiency and the Strategic Control of Attention at Encoding: Impairments of Value-Directed Remembering in Alzheimer's Disease

Neuropsychology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 297-306

  Castel, Alan D ^a   Balota, David A ^b   McCabe, David P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; Alzheimer's disease; efficiency; memory; value and strategic encoding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 65649110445     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014888     Document Type: Article

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