Does variability in cognitive performance correlate with frontal brain volume?

NeuroImage

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 209-215

  Lövdén, Martin ^a,b,c   Schmiedek, Florian ^a,d   Kennedy, Kristen M ^e   Rodrigue, Karen M ^e   Lindenberger, Ulman ^a   Raz, Naftali ^a,f  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^f WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Gray matter volume; Individual differences; White matter volume; Within person variability

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; WHITE MATTER; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867391549     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.09.039     Document Type: Article

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