Age-related vulnerability in the neural systems supporting semantic processing

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Peelle, Jonathan E ^a,c   Chandrasekaran, Keerthi ^a   Powers, John ^a   Smith, Edward E ^b   Grossman, Murray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Department of Psychology Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognitive aging; Compensation; FMRI; Language; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; ATROPHY; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FACTORIAL DESIGN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; GRAY MATTER ATROPHY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERFORMANCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; SEMANTIC MEMORY; STIMULUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895805632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2013.00046     Document Type: Article

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