Working memory span in mild cognitive impairment. Influence of processing speed and cognitive reserve

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 615-625

  Facal, David ^a   Juncos Rabadán, Onésimo ^a   Pereiro, Arturo X ^a   Lojo Seoane, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cognitive reserve; Mild cognitive impairment; Reaction time; Vocabulary; Working memory; Working memory span tasks

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE RESERVE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNTING SPAN TASK; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; LISTENING SPAN TASK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MULTIPLE DOMAIN AMNESTIC MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PROCESSING SPEED; SINGLE DOMAIN AMNESTIC MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; SPATIAL SPAN TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; WORKING MEMORY; AGED; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLASSIFICATION; EPISODIC MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITIVE RESERVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84896401647     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610213002391     Document Type: Article

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