Age-dependent visuomotor performance and white matter structure: A DTI study

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 218, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1075-1084

  Koch, Kathrin ^a,b   Wagner, Gerd ^a   Schachtzabel, Claudia ^a   Schultz, C Christoph ^a   Güllmar, Daniel ^a   Reichenbach, Jürgen R ^a   Sauer, Heinrich ^a   Schlösser, Ralf G M ^a  

^a JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age; Corpus callosum; DTI; Trail Making Test; Visuomotor performance; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RESPONSE TIME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VOLUNTEER; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANISOTROPY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TRAIL MAKING TEST;

EID: 84883138290     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-012-0447-9     Document Type: Article

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