Bilateral brain regions associated with naming in older adults

Brain and Language

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 113-123

  Obler, Loraine K ^a,b,c   Rykhlevskaia, Elena ^d   Schnyer, David ^e   Clark Cotton, Manuella R ^a   Spiro, Avron ^b,f   Hyun, JungMoon ^b,c   Kim, Dae Shik ^g   Goral, Mira ^c,h   Albert, Martin L ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^h CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Bilaterality; DTI; MRI; Naming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGING; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SPEECH;

EID: 77952552723     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2010.03.001     Document Type: Article

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