Cognitive and neuropsychological underpinnings of relational and conjunctive working memory binding across age

Memory

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1112-1122

  van Geldorp, Bonnie ^a   Parra, Mario A ^b,c   Kessels, Roy P C ^a,d  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aging; Binding; Relational memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84942802342     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2014.953959     Document Type: Article

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