Characterizing cognitive aging of working memory and executive function in animal models

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2012, Pages

  Bizon, Jennifer L ^a   Foster, Thomas C ^a   Alexander, Gene E ^b   Glisky, Elizabeth L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged; Cognitive flexibility; Delayed match to place; Prefrontal cortex; Rat; Rodents; Set shifting; Water maze

Indexed keywords

AGING; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FOREBRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PERIRHINAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAPHE NUCLEUS; REFERENCE MEMORY; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84870495282     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2012.00019     Document Type: Article

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