Attentional control in the aging brain: Insights from an fMRI study of the stroop task

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 277-296

  Milham, Michael P ^a   Erickson, Kirk I ^a   Banich, Marie T ^b   Kramer, Arthur F ^a   Webb, Andrew ^a   Wszalek, Tracey ^a   Cohen, Neal J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Anterior cingulate; Attentional control; Competition; Conflict; fMRI; Parietal cortex; Prefrontal cortex; Stroop

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL ACTIVITY; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 0036346639     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brcg.2001.1501     Document Type: Article

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