Differences in the functional neuroanatomy of inhibitory control across the adult life span.

Inhibitory control, the ability to suppress irrelevant or interfering stimuli, is a fundamental cognitive function that deteriorates during aging, but little is understood about the bases of decline. Thus, we used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study inhibitory control...

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Published in:	Psychology & Aging Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 56 - 72
Main Authors:	Nielson, Kristy A., Langenecker, Scott A., Garavan, Hugh
Format:	Article
Published:	American Psychological Association March 2002
Subjects:	Response inhibition Brain > Imaging Age factors in cognition Brain function localization
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