'Executive' functions and normal aging: Selective impairment in conditional exclusion compared to abstraction and inhibition

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 53-62

  Silver, Henry ^a,b   Goodman, Craig ^a   Gur, Ruben C ^c   Gur, Raquel E ^c   Bilker, Warren B ^d  

^a SHA'AR MENASHE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c Department of Psychiatry   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive impairment; Cognitive integration; Early dementia; Early detection

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTION; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONDITIONAL EXCLUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MONITORING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649790037     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000322568     Document Type: Article

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