The structure and connectivity of semantic memory in the healthy older adult brain

NeuroImage

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1488-1494

  De Zubicaray, Greig I ^a   Rose, Stephen E ^a   McMahon, Katie L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anterior temporal lobe; Diffusion tensor imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Semantic memory; Small world networks

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 78649661828     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.08.058     Document Type: Article

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