Brain areas consistently linked to individual differences in perceptual decision-making in younger as well as older adults before and after training

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2147-2158

  Kühn, Simone ^a,b   Schmiedek, Florian ^c,d   Schott, Björn ^e,f   Ratcliff, Roger ^g   Heinze, Hans Jochen ^e   Düzel, Emrah ^b,e   Lindenberger, Ulman ^c   Lövden, Martin ^c,h  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^d GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^g OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDIVIDUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; REACTION TIME; TEACHING; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960121204     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21564     Document Type: Article

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