Age-related declines in the fidelity of newly acquired category representations

Learning and Memory

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 325-329

  Davis, Tyler ^a   Love, Bradley C ^b   Maddox, W Todd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THEORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865214639     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.024919.111     Document Type: Article

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