Overrecruitment in the aging brain as a function of task demands: Evidence for a compensatory view

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 801-815

  Vallesi, Antonino ^a,b   McIntosh, Anthony R ^b,c   Stuss, Donald T ^b,c  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650521703     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21490     Document Type: Article

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