Hippocampal activity during the transverse patterning task declines with cognitive competence but not with age

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Leirer, Vera M ^a   Wienbruch, Christian ^a   Paul Jordanov, Isabella ^a   Kolassa, Stephan ^b   Elbert, Thomas ^a   Kolassa, Iris T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b Analysis and Forecasting AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; MENTAL TEST; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VERBAL MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COLOR; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EYE FIXATION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION DISORDERS; COLOR; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956468497     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-11-113     Document Type: Article

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