Adult age differences in functional connectivity during executive control

NeuroImage

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 643-657

  Madden, David J ^a,b,c   Costello, Matthew C ^a   Dennis, Nancy A ^a,c   Davis, Simon W ^c   Shepler, Anne M ^a,b   Spaniol, Julia ^a   Bucur, Barbara ^a   Cabeza, Roberto ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognition; DTI; FMRI; Human development; Reaction time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; WHITE MATTER; WORD RECOGNITION; ADOLESCENT; AGING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; LANGUAGE TEST; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CUES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953698835     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.04.249     Document Type: Article

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