Inefficiency in self-organized attentional switching in the normal aging population is associated with decreased activity in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1670-1686

  Hampshire, Adam ^a   Gruszka, Aleksandra ^a   Fallon, Sean J ^a   Owen, Adrian M ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NERVE POTENTIAL; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PERSEVERATION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; REWARD;

EID: 50649083453     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.20115     Document Type: Article

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