Remembering the past and imagining the future in the elderly

Gerontology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 143-151

  Schacter, Daniel L ^a   Gaesser, Brendan ^a   Addis, Donna Rose ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Aging; Episodic memory; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Hippocampus; Imagination; Simulation

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN; EPISODIC MEMORY; FUTUROLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MEMORY; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84874764630     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: 14230003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000342198     Document Type: Article

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