Normal aging and the dissociable prototype learning systems

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 120-128

  Glass, Brian D ^a   Chotibut, Tanya ^b   Pacheco, Jennifer ^a   Schnyer, David M ^a   Maddox, Todd W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Categorization; Memory systems; Prototypes

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; DISSOCIABLE PROTOTYPE LEARNING SYSTEM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; LEARNING; MENTAL DETERIORATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTENTION; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; CLASSIFICATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863616409     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024971     Document Type: Article

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