Olfactory memory: A bridge between humans and animals in models of cognitive aging

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1170, Issue , 2009, Pages 658-663

  Eichenbaum, Howard ^a,b   Robitsek, R Jonathan ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center for Memory and Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Familiarity; Hippocampus; Olfaction; Receiver operating characteristic; Recollection; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETERIORATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY MEMORY; RAT; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SIGNAL DETECTION; SMELLING; SPATIAL MEMORY; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 68649106179     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04012.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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