The speed-accuracy tradeoff in the elderly brain: A structural model-based approach

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 47, 2011, Pages 17242-17249

  Forstmann, Birte U ^a   Tittgemeyer, Marc ^b   Wagenmakers, Eric Jan ^a   Derrfuss, Jan ^b,c   Imperati, Davide ^b   Brown, Scott ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORTICOSTRIATAL TRACT; DECISION MAKING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROANATOMY; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81855193722     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0309-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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