An fMRI study of concreteness effects during spoken word recognition in aging. Preservation or attenuation?

It is unclear whether healthy aging influences concreteness effects (ie. the processing advantage seen for concrete over abstract words) and its associated neural mechanisms. We conducted an fMRI study on young and older healthy adults performing auditory lexical decisions on concrete versus abstrac...

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Main Authors: Tracy eRoxbury, Katie eMcMahon, Alan eCoulthard, David A Copland
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnagi.2015.00240/full