Differences in learning rates for item and associative memories between amnestic mild cognitive impairment and healthy controls

Behavioral and Brain Functions

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-11

  Wang, Pengyun ^a,b   Li, Juan ^a   Li, Huijie ^a   Zhang, Shouzi ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Beijing Geriatric Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Associative memory; Item memory; Learning rate; Mild cognitive impairment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; AUDITORY VERBAL LEARNING TEST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING CURVE; LEARNING DISORDER; LEARNING TEST; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PAIRED ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; AMNESIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; LEARNING; MEMORY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; AMNESIA; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 84882601876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17449081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-9081-9-29     Document Type: Article

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