Effects of healthy aging and early stage dementia of the alzheimer's type on components of response time distributions in three attention tasks

Neuropsychology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 300-315

  Tse, Chi Shing ^a   Balota, David A ^b   Yap, Melvin J ^c   Duchek, Janet M ^b   McCabe, David P ^d  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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

Author keywords

Aging; Alzheimer's disease; Attention; Ex Gaussian response time distribution; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONSCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL TASK; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SIMON TASK; STROOP TASK; SWITCHING TASK; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

AGED; AGING; ALGORITHMS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PERSONALITY TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 77952905545     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018274     Document Type: Article

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