Failure to engage spatial working memory contributes to age-related declines in visuomotor learning

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 11-25

  Anguera, Joaquin A ^a,c   Reuter Lorenz, Patricia A ^a   Willingham, Daniel T ^b   Seidler, Rachael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DETERIORATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL WORKING MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ADAPTATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEARNING DISORDERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649471952     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21451     Document Type: Article

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