White matter integrity correlates of implicit sequence learning in healthy aging

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2317.e1-2317.e12

  Bennett, Ilana J ^a   Madden, David J ^b   Vaidya, Chandan J ^a,c   Howard, James H ^a,d,e   Howard, Darlene V ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Caudate; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Implicit sequence learning; White matter integrity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SEQUENCE LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 80053619055     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2010.03.017     Document Type: Article

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