New insights into feature and conjunction search: II. Evidence from Alzheimer's disease

Cortex

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 637-649

  Porter, Gillian ^a   Leonards, Ute ^a   Wilcock, Gordon ^a,b   Haworth, Judy ^a   Troscianko, Tom ^a   Tales, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Conjunction; Pupil dilation; Resources; Visual search

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MYDRIASIS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PUPIL; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77950458401     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.04.014     Document Type: Article

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