Massed versus spaced visuospatial memory in cognitively healthy young and older adults

Alzheimer's and Dementia

Volumn 9, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2013, Pages

  Jackson, Colleen E ^a   Maruff, Paul T ^b,c   Snyder, Peter J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c CogState Ltd ^*  (Australia)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age related memory changes; Amyloid imaging; Clinical research; Massed learning; Memory; Spaced learning; Visuospatial learning

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873414461     PISSN: 15525260     EISSN: 15525279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2012.04.005     Document Type: Article

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