Hippocampal activation for autobiographical memories over the entire lifetime in healthy aged subjects: An fMRI study

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2453-2467

  Viard, Armelle ^a   Piolino, Pascale ^a,b   Desgranges, Béatrice ^a   Chételat, Gaël ^a   Lebreton, Karine ^a   Landeau, Brigitte ^a   Young, Alan ^a   De La Sayette, Vincent ^a   Eustache, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Autonoetic consciousness; Episodic memory; fMRI; Hippocampus; Memory consolidation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SIZE; CINGULATE GYRUS; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LIFESPAN; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE;

AGED; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 34247477923     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl153     Document Type: Article

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