Neural broadening or neural attenuation? Investigating age-related dedifferentiation in the face network in a large lifespan sample

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2154-2158

  Park, Joonkoo ^a   Carp, Joshua ^a   Kennedy, Kristen M ^b   Rodrigue, Karen M ^b   Bischof, Gerard N ^b   Huang, Chih Mao ^b   Rieck, Jennifer R ^b   Polk, Thad A ^a   Park, Denise C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESPAN; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TUNING CURVE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863061520     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4494-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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