Learning to integrate versus inhibiting information is modulated by age

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2213-2225

  Cappelletti, Marinella ^a,c   Pikkat, Helen ^a   Upstill, Emily ^a   Speekenbrink, Maarten ^b   Walsh, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Brain stimulation; Learning strategies; Neuroenhancement; Parietal lobe; Quantity processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTEGRATION; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUMEROSITY DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; TRAINING; AGING; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE;

EID: 84922388216     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1018-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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