Deficits in process-specific prefrontal and hippocampal activations contribute to adult age differences in episodic memory interference

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1832-1844

  Fandakova, Yana ^a   Lindenberger, Ulman ^a   Shing, Yee Lee ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

aging; anterior frontal; associative novelty; FMRI; hippocampus; memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROIMAGING; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD; IMAGE PROCESSING; INDIVIDUALITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDIVIDUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902469414     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht034     Document Type: Article

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