The effects of aging in delay and trace human eyeblink conditioning

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 684-690

  Cheng, Dominic T ^a   Faulkner, Monica L ^a   Disterhoft, John F ^b   Desmond, John E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cerebellum; Hippocampus; Learning; Memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; BLINKING; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONING, EYELID; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957289304     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017978     Document Type: Article

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