Spatial navigation in young versus older adults

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Gazova, Ivana ^a,b   Laczó, Jan ^a,b   Rubinova, Eva ^b   Mokrisova, Ivana ^a,b   Hyncicova, Eva ^a   Andel, Ross ^b,c   Vyhnalek, Martin ^a,b   Sheardova, Katerina ^b   Coulson, Elizabeth J ^d   Hort, Jakub ^a,b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aging; Allocentric navigation; Alzheimer's disease; Egocentric navigation; Gender; Hippocampus; Spatial learning; Spatial navigation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALLOCENTRIC NAVIGATION; ARTICLE; EGOCENTRIC NAVIGATION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MIDDLE AGED; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL NAVIGATION; SPATIAL NAVIGATION TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895826070     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2013.00094     Document Type: Article

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