Cortex
Volume 46, Issue 4 , Pages 425-433 , April 2010

There are age-related changes in neural connectivity during the encoding of positive, but not negative, information

  • Donna R. Addis

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Auckland, New Zealand
    • ,
  • Christina M. Leclerc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA
    • ,
  • Keely A. Muscatell

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA
    • ,
  • Elizabeth A. Kensinger

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA
    • Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychology, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA.

Received 13 November 2008 ,Revised 10 March 2009 ,Accepted 13 April 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.04.011

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