Influence of aging on the neural correlates of autobiographical, episodic, and semantic memory retrieval

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4150-4163

  St Laurent, Marie ^a   Abdi, Hervé ^b   Burianová, Hana ^c   Grady, Cheryl L ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; CEREBELLUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNEUS; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR OCCIPITAL GYRUS; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; MEMORY RETRIEVAL NETWORK; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE OCCIPITAL GYRUS; MIDDLE ORBITAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTIC MEMORY RETRIEVAL; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR OCCIPITAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS;

EID: 80055107888     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00079     Document Type: Article

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