Age-related changes in brain activity across the adult lifespan

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 227-241

  Grady, Cheryl L ^a,b   Springer, Mellanie V ^a   Hongwanishkul, Donaya ^a   McIntosh, Anthony R ^a   Winocur, Gordon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESPAN; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33645743814     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2006.18.2.227     Document Type: Article

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