Predicting Conversion to Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type in a Healthy Control Sample: The Power of Errors in Stroop Color Naming

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 208-218

  Balota, David A ^a   Tse, Chi Shing ^a   Hutchison, Keith A ^b   Spieler, Daniel H ^c   Duchek, Janet M ^a   Morris, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Attentional control; Conversion; Dementia; Stroop

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MEMORY; PREDICTION; PSYCHOMETRY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROOP TEST;

EID: 77950312015     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017474     Document Type: Article

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