The architecture of cross-hemispheric communication in the aging brain: Linking behavior to functional and structural connectivity

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 232-242

  Davis, Simon W ^a   Kragel, James E ^a   Madden, David J ^a   Cabeza, Roberto ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; cortical reorganization; diffusion tensor; fMRI; white matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BILATERAL PROCESSING ADVANTAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84055184501     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr123     Document Type: Article

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