Effects of Age on the Structure of Functional Connectivity Networks During Episodic and Working Memory Demand

Brain Connectivity

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 113-124

  Matthäus, Franziska ^a   Schmidt, Jan Philip ^a   Banerjee, Anirban ^b,c   Schulze, Thomas G ^d   Demirakca, Traute ^a   Diener, Carsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

age; episodic memory; functional connectivity; network analysis; working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983389034     PISSN: 21580014     EISSN: 21580022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/brain.2012.0077     Document Type: Article

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