Adult age differences in regional cerebral blood flow during visual word identification: Evidence from H215O PET

NeuroImage

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 127-142

  Madden, David J ^c   Turkington, Timothy G ^a   Coleman, R Edward ^a   Provenzale, James M ^a   DeGrado, Timothy R ^a   Hoffman, John M ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0029877973     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nimg.1996.0015     Document Type: Article

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