The cognitive neuroscience of aging: New findings on compensation and connectivity

Cortex

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 421-424

  Phillips, Louise H ^a   Andrés, Pilar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EDITORIAL; EPISODIC MEMORY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; IMPLICIT MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

AGING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 76849117854     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2010.01.005     Document Type: Editorial

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