Age-related Changes in Neural Activity during Visual Target Detection Measured by fMRI

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 143-155

  Madden, David J ^a   Whiting, Wythe L ^a   Provenzale, James M ^a   Huettel, Scott A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Attention; Neuroimaging; Oddball task; Perception; Response time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LATERAL OCCIPITAL GYRUS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; VISION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0942301375     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhg113     Document Type: Article

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