Cognitive and neural effects of semantic encoding strategy training in older adults

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 788-799

  Kirchhoff, B A ^a   Anderson, B A ^b   Barch, D M ^b,c,d   Jacoby, L L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; cognitive training; fMRI; intentional encoding; prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL GYRUS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84859069435     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr129     Document Type: Article

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