Path complexity in virtual water maze navigation: Differential associations with age, sex, and regional brain volume

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3122-3131

  Daugherty, Ana M ^a   Yuan, Peng ^a   Dahle, Cheryl L ^a   Bender, Andrew R ^a   Yang, Yiqin ^a   Raz, Naftali ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Brain; Fractal dimensionality; Hippocampus; Spatial navigation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY; ADOLESCENT; AGING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; COMPUTER INTERFACE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAZE TEST; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; SEX FACTORS; SPATIAL NAVIGATION; TIME FACTORS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84983338629     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu107     Document Type: Article

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