Differential contributions of dorso-ventral and rostro-caudal prefrontal white matter tracts to cognitive control in healthy older adults

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Strenziok, Maren ^a   Greenwood, Pamela M ^a   Cruz, Sophia A Santa ^a   Thompson, James C ^a   Parasuraman, Raja ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REASONING; SEMANTICS; THALAMUS; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84891397137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081410     Document Type: Article

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