What has fMRI told us about the Development of Cognitive Control through Adolescence?

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 101-113

  Luna, Beatriz ^a   Padmanabhan, Aarthi ^a   O'Hearn, Kirsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD); Brain development; Cognitive control; Distributed circuitry; Executive function; Prefrontal cortex; Response inhibition; Saccades; Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENCE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ANIMALS; BRAIN; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM;

EID: 72649099102     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2009.08.005     Document Type: Review

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