Age related differences in reaction time components and diffusion properties of normal-appearing white matter in healthy adults

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 66, Issue , 2015, Pages 246-258

  Yang, Yiqin ^a   Bender, Andrew R ^a   Raz, Naftali ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Brain; DTI; MRI; Ratcliff diffusion model

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DECISION MAKING; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL APPEARING WHITE MATTER DIFFUSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RATCLIFF DIFFUSION MODEL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; WHITE MATTER; ADOLESCENT; AGE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANISOTROPY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; REACTION TIME; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84949116710     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.11.020     Document Type: Article

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