Prefrontal Engagement and Reduced Default Network Suppression Co-occur and Are Dynamically Coupled in older Adults: The Default-Executive Coupling Hypothesis of Aging

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2462-2476

  Turner, Gary R ^a   Spreng, R Nathan ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTOPARIETAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PLANNING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; BRAIN MAPPING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84946047184     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00869     Document Type: Article

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