Neural recruitment and cognitive aging: two hemispheres are better than one, especially as you age.

The writers test the hypothesis that neural recruitment compensates for age-related neural declines in a visual laterality analysis that explored age differences in the efficiency of bihemispheric processing. They explain that letter-matching tasks of varying complexity were performed under two con...

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Published in:	Psychological Science. Vol. 10; no. 6; pp. 494 - 501
Main Authors:	Reuter-Lorenz, Patricia A., Stanczak, Louise, Miller, Andrea C.
Format:	Article
Published:	HWW Temp November 1999
Subjects:	Age factors in cognition Brain function localization
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost