Age-related similarities and differences in brain activity underlying reversal learning

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue APR 2013, 2013, Pages

  Nashiro, Kaoru ^a   Sakaki, Michiko ^b   Nga, Lin ^b   Mather, Mara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Associative memory; Emotion; Functional MRI; Memory updating; Reversal learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLAUSTRUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULMEN; CUNEUS; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INSULA; LEARNING; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE OCCIPITAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PUTAMEN; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS;

EID: 84878482116     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2013.00037     Document Type: Article

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