Successful working memory processes and cerebellum in an elderly sample: A neuropsychological and fMRI study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Luis, Elkin O ^a   Arrondo, Gonzalo ^a,d   Vidorreta, Marta ^a   Martínez, Martin ^a   Loayza, Francis ^a   Fernández Seara, María A ^a,c   Pastor, María A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGULAR GYRUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR OCCIPITAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL GYRUS; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; INSULA; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; MIDDLE CINGULATE GYRUS; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE OCCIPITAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PARIETAL CORTEX; PARIETAL GYRUS; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; RESPONSE TIME; SUPERIOR PARIETAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; WORKING MEMORY; AGING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

AGED; AGING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 84938875188     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131536     Document Type: Article

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