High cognitive reserve is associated with a reduced age related deficit in spatial conflict resolution

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue NOVEMBER 2012, 2012, Pages

  Puccioni, Olga ^a   Vallesi, Antonino ^a,b  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cognitive aging; Cognitive reserve; Conflict; Spatial stroop

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE RESERVE; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RESPONSE TIME; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPATIAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

EID: 84933671495     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00327     Document Type: Article

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