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Bilateral recruitment of prefrontal cortex in working memory is associated with task demand but not...

Bilateral recruitment of prefrontal cortex in working memory is associated with task demand but not...

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Bilateral recruitment of prefrontal cortex in working memory is associated with task demand but not with age

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Bilateral recruitment of prefrontal cortex in working memory is associated with task demand but not with age

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United States: National Academy of Sciences

Journal title

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2017-01, Vol.114 (5), p.E830-E839

Language

English

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United States: National Academy of Sciences

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Contents

Elderly adults may master challenging cognitive demands by additionally recruiting the cross-hemispheric counterparts of otherwise unilaterally engaged brain regions, a strategy that seems to be at odds with the notion of lateralized functions in cerebral cortex. We wondered whether bilateral activation might be a general coping strategy that is in...

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Bilateral recruitment of prefrontal cortex in working memory is associated with task demand but not with age

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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_5293052

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_5293052

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ISSN

0027-8424

E-ISSN

1091-6490

DOI

10.1073/pnas.1601983114

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