Structural and functional bases of visuospatial associative memory in older adults

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 961-972

  Zamboni, Giovanna ^a,b   de Jager, Celeste A ^a   Drazich, Erin ^a   Douaud, Gwenaëlle ^b   Jenkinson, Mark ^b   Smith, A David ^a,c   Tracey, Irene ^b   Wilcock, Gordon K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

fMRI; Hippocampus; Medial temporal lobe; Multimodal imaging; Placing test; VBM; Visuospatial associative memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PLACING TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATROPHY; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84870543527     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2012.07.011     Document Type: Article

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