Age-related differences in brain activity in the subsequent memory paradigm: A meta-analysis

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 45, Issue , 2014, Pages 246-257

  Maillet, David ^a   Rajah, M Natasha ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Encoding; Episodic memory; Spontaneous thoughts; Subsequent memory; Task unrelated thoughts

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPISODIC MEMORY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MENTAL TASK; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; YOUNG ADULT; BRAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MEMORY; META ANALYSIS; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGING; BRAIN; HUMANS; MEMORY; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84904362709     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.06.006     Document Type: Review

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