Impairment in associative memory in healthy aging is distinct from that in other types of episodic memory

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 197, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 135-139

  Silver, Henry ^a,b   Goodman, Craig ^a   Bilker, Warren B ^c  

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

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive; Decline; Dementia; Hippocampus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION; SCORING SYSTEM; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGIC; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84862318819     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2012.01.025     Document Type: Article

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