Frontostriatal white matter integrity mediates adult age differences in probabilistic reward learning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 5333-5337

  Samanez Larkin, Gregory R ^a   Levens, Sara M ^b   Perry, Lee M ^c   Dougherty, Robert F ^c   Knutson, Brian ^c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CORPUS STRIATUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CUES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REWARD; THALAMUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859520612     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5756-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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