Adaptive influence of long term high altitude residence on spatial working memory: An fMRI study

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 53-59

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

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Compensation; FMRI; N Back; Spatial working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MIDDLE OCCIPITAL GYRUS; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SPATIAL MEMORY; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALTITUDE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SPACE PERCEPTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051682894     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2011.06.002     Document Type: Article

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