Age-related changes in brain activation underlying single- and dual-task performance: Visuomanual drawing and mental arithmetic

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2400-2409

  Van Impe, A ^a   Coxon, J P ^a   Goble, D J ^a,b   Wenderoth, N ^a   Swinnen, S P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Dual tasking; FMRI; Mental arithmetic; Visuomotor task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRAWING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REFERENCE VALUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960185227     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.04.016     Document Type: Article

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