Hemispheric asymmetry and aging: Right hemisphere decline or asymmetry reduction

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 819-825

  Dolcos, Florin ^a,b   Rice, Heather J ^a   Cabeza, Roberto ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

HAROLD model; Neuropsychology; Right hemi aging model

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AGING; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MEMORY; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; REVIEW; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0036858444     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-7634(02)00068-4     Document Type: Article

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