Neural correlates of training-related working-memory gains in old age

NeuroImage

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1110-1120

  Brehmer, Yvonne ^a   Rieckmann, Anna ^a   Bellander, Martin ^a   Westerberg, Helena ^a   Fischer, Håkan ^a,b   Bäckman, Lars ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; COGNITION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEOCORTEX; OXYGEN; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 80052641526     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.06.079     Document Type: Article

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