Age-related differences in prefrontal cortex activity during retrieval monitoring: Testing the compensation and dysfunction accounts

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1049-1060

  McDonough, Ian M ^a   Wong, Jessica T ^b   Gallo, David A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; false recognition; fMRI; source memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRIEVAL MONITORING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN MAPPING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876194711     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs064     Document Type: Article

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