Prolonged high-altitude residence impacts verbal working memory: An fMRI study

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 208, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 437-445

  Yan, Xiaodan ^a,b,c   Zhang, Jiaxing ^a,d   Gong, Qiyong ^e   Weng, Xuchu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Effective connectivity; fMRI; Granger causality; N back; Verbal; Working memory

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL; SOCIOECONOMICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ALTITUDE; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78951474313     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2494-x     Document Type: Article

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