There are age-related changes in neural connectivity during the encoding of positive, but not negative, information

Cortex

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 425-433

  Addis, Donna R ^a   Leclerc, Christina M ^b   Muscatell, Keely A ^b   Kensinger, Elizabeth A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Connectivity; Emotion; fMRI; Memory; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL MEMORY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76849110608     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.04.011     Document Type: Article

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