Effects of semantic relatedness on age-related associative memory deficits: The role of theta oscillations

NeuroImage

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1235-1248

  Crespo Garcia, Maite ^a   Cantero, Jose L ^a   Atienza, Mercedes ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aging; Associative memory; Neural compensation; Neural inefficiency; Theta oscillations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; OSCILLATION; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; THETA RHYTHM; VENTRO LATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

AGED; AGING; BRAIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THETA RHYTHM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861336310     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.03.034     Document Type: Article

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