Relationship of contextual cueing and hippocampal volume in amnestic mild cognitive impairment patients and cognitively normal older adults

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 285-296

  Negash, Selam ^a,b   Kliot, Daria ^a   Howard, Darlene V ^c   Howard, James H ^c,d   Das, Sandhistu R ^a   Yushkevich, Paul A ^a   Pluta, John B ^a   Arnold, Steven E ^a,b   Wolk, David A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; CA1; Cognitive aging; Implicit; MRI; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; CUES; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84930485366     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: 14697661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617715000223     Document Type: Article

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