Morphometry and connectivity of the fronto-parietal verbal working memory network in development

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 3854-3862

  Østby, Ylva ^a   Tamnes, Christian K ^a   Fjell, Anders M ^a,b   Walhovd, Kristine B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Children; DTI; Lateral prefrontal cortex; MRI; Superior longitudinal fasciculus; Supramarginal gyrus

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; MENTAL TEST; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; ROSTRAL MIDDLE FRONTAL CORTEX; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; THICKNESS; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81855178286     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.10.001     Document Type: Article

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