Neural Underpinnings of Within-Person Variability in Cognitive Functioning

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 792-808

  MacDonald, Stuart W S ^a,b   Li, Shu Chen ^c   Bäckman, Lars ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

aging; brain; cognition; neuromodulation; within person variability

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPISODIC MEMORY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; LIFESPAN; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROMODULATION; NOISE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 75149173918     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017798     Document Type: Article

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