Route repetition and route retracing: Effects of cognitive aging

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2012, Pages

  Wiener, Jan M ^a   Kmecova, Hana ^a   de Condappa, Olivier ^a  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive aging; Route learning; Route retracing; Spatial memory; Wayfinding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; REPETITION PRIMING; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84862552683     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2012.00007     Document Type: Article

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