Attention, executive functioning and memory in normal aged rhesus monkeys

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 219, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 23-30

  Zeamer, Alyson ^a   Decamp, Emmanuel ^a   Clark, Kathryn ^a   Schneider, J S ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged; Attention; Executive function; Memory; Primate

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE MEMORY; RESPONSE TIME; RHESUS MONKEY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEMORY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; REVERSAL LEARNING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78651251932     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.12.021     Document Type: Article

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