Performance level modulates adult age differences in brain activation during spatial working memory

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 52, 2009, Pages 22552-22557

  Nagel, Irene E ^a   Preuschhof, Claudia ^b   Li, Shu Chen ^a   Nyberg, Lars ^d   Bäckman, Lars ^a,c   Lindenberger, Ulman ^a   Heekeren, Hauke R ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aging; fMRI; Performance load; Premotor cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; BRAIN; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE NET; PARIETAL LOBE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76049099049     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0908238106     Document Type: Article

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