The effects of aging on the neural basis of implicit associative learning in a probabilistic triplets learning task

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 451-463

  Simon, Jessica R ^a   Vaidya, Chandan J ^a,b   Howard, James H ^a,c   Howard, Darlene V ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRIPLETS LEARNING TASK;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84555186889     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00116     Document Type: Article

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