Age mediation of frontoparietal activation during visual feature search

NeuroImage

Volumn 102, Issue P2, 2014, Pages 262-274

  Madden, David J ^a   Parks, Emily L ^a   Davis, Simon W ^b   Diaz, Michele T ^a   Potter, Guy G ^a   Chou, Ying hui ^a   Chen, Nan kuei ^a   Cabeza, Roberto ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Attention; FMRI; Neuroimaging; Perception; Reaction time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DIGIT SYMBOL SUBSTITUTION TEST; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VOLUNTEER; YOUNG ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FRONTAL LOBE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906273613     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.07.053     Document Type: Article

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