Does compensatory neural activity survive old-old age?

NeuroImage

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 427-438

  Daffner, Kirk R ^a   Sun, Xue ^a   Tarbi, Elise C ^a   Rentz, Dorene M ^a   Holcomb, Phillip J ^b   Riis, Jenna L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive aging; Compensatory activity; ERPs; Old old age; P3; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURONS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 77957969903     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.08.006     Document Type: Article

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