Is retaining the youthful functional anatomy underlying speed of information processing a signature of successful cognitive ageing? An event-related fMRI study of inspection time performance

NeuroImage

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 581-595

  Waiter, Gordon D ^a   Fox, Helen C ^a   Murray, Alison D ^a   Starr, John M ^b   Staff, Roger T ^c   Bourne, Victoria J ^d   Whalley, Lawrence J ^a   Deary, Ian J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 44149118609     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.02.045     Document Type: Article

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