An fMRI study of concreteness effects during spoken word recognition in aging. Preservation or attenuation?

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue JAN, 2016, Pages

  Roxbury, Tracy ^a,b   McMahon, Katie ^b   Coulthard, Alan ^b,c   Copland, David A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abstract; Aging; Auditory; Concrete; Concreteness; FMRI; Spoken word

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL TASK; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; WORD RECOGNITION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84960086699     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2015.00240     Document Type: Article

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