Neuroimaging explanations of age-related differences in task performance

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Steffener, Jason ^a   Barulli, Daniel ^a,b   Habeck, Christian ^a   Stern, Yaakov ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^b Department of Neurology Columbia University of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive aging; Functional brain activity; Mediation; Moderated mediation; Path analysis; Task switching

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84898046086     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00046     Document Type: Article

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