Reduced neural selectivity increases fMRI adaptation with age during face discrimination

NeuroImage

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 336-344

  Goh, Joshua O ^a,c   Suzuki, Atsunobu ^b   Park, Denise C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Aging; Dedifferentiation; Faces; Fusiform Area

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950540569     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.01.107     Document Type: Article

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