Age-related changes to the neural correlates of working memory which emerge after midlife

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Macpherson, Helen N ^a   White, David J ^a   Ellis, Kathryn A ^b   Stough, Con ^a   Camfield, David ^a   Silberstein, Richard ^a   Pipingas, Andrew ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aging; Compensation; Middle age; Midlife; SSVEP; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; SPATIAL MEMORY; STEADY STATE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84901379122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00070     Document Type: Article

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