Age differences in callosal contributions to cognitive processes

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2564-2569

  Fling, Brett W ^a,b   Chapekis, Melanie ^a   Reuter Lorenz, Patricia A ^a,c   Anguera, Joaquin ^a   Bo, Jin ^a   Langan, Jeanne ^a   Welsh, Robert C ^c   Seidler, Rachael D ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Corpus callosum; Processing speed; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRUM; COGNITION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ORGAN SIZE; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 79960193804     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.05.004     Document Type: Article

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