The relationship between aging, performance, and the neural correlates of successful memory encoding

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 733-744

  Duverne, Sandrine ^a,b   Motamedinia, Shahab ^a   Rugg, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Cognitive aging; Compensation; Episodic memory; Hemispheric asymmetry reduction; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GROUPS BY AGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59749100614     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn122     Document Type: Article

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