Verbal to visual code switching improves working memory in older adults: An fMRI study

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue FEBRUARY 2012, 2012, Pages

  Osaka, Mariko ^a   Otsuka, Yuki ^b   Osaka, Naoyuki ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Graduate School Letters   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attention switching; fMRI; Older adults; Strategy training; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; LEFT INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; RIGHT SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84933679236     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00024     Document Type: Article

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