Preserved executive function in high-performing elderly is driven by large-scale recruitment of prefrontal cortical mechanisms

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4198-4214

  De Sanctis, Pierfilippo ^a,b   Gomez Ramirez, Manuel ^a,b   Sehatpour, Pejman ^a   Wylie, Glenn R ^c   Foxe, John J ^a,b  

^a NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c KESSLER FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; ERP; Event related potentials; Executive control; Frontal cortex; High density electrical mapping; Task switching

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72549097707     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20839     Document Type: Article

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