Neural processing of overt word generation in healthy individuals: The effect of age and word knowledge

NeuroImage

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 832-840

  Nagels, Arne ^a   Kircher, Tilo ^a   Dietsche, Bruno ^a   Backes, Heidelore ^a   Marquetand, Justus ^a   Krug, Axel ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ACC; Age; FMRI; Inferior frontal gyrus; Semantic verbal fluency; Superior temporal gyrus; Word knowledge

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INSULA; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MICROPHONE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL GYRUS; VERBALIZATION;

ADULT; AGING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; KNOWLEDGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SPEECH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861336904     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.04.019     Document Type: Article

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