Use it or lose it? SES mitigates age-related decline in a recency/recognition task

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 945-958

  Czernochowski, Daniela ^a   Fabiani, Monica ^b   Friedman, David ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognition; Event related brain potentials (ERPs); Frontal negative slow wave; Item memory; Recency judgments; Recognition judgments; Socio economic status (SES); Source memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL STATUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JUDGMENT; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEW YORK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 42949154730     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2006.12.017     Document Type: Article

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