Diminished top-down control underlies a visual imagery deficit in normal aging

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 44, 2011, Pages 15768-15774

  Kalkstein, Jonathan ^a   Checksfield, Kristen ^a   Bollinger, Jacob ^a   Gazzaley, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80155148099     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3209-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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