Top-down modulation and normal aging

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1097, Issue , 2007, Pages 67-83

  Gazzaley, Adam ^a,b   D'esposito, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Attention; EEG; ERP; fMRI; Top down modulation; Working memory

Indexed keywords

AGING; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEMORY; NERVE TRACT; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY; AGED; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW;

AGED; AGING; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 34247634784     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1379.010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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