Limbic tract integrity contributes to pattern separation performance across the lifespan

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2988-2999

  Bennett, Ilana J ^a   Huffman, Derek J ^a   Stark, Craig E L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Diffusion tensor imaging; Episodic memory; Fornix; Pattern separation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL PATTERN SEPARATION TASK OBJECT; BRAIN FORNIX; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN SEPARATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REY AUDITORY VERBAL LEARNING TEST; AGED; AGING; COGNITION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84978415991     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu093     Document Type: Article

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