Cortex
Volume 46, Issue 4 , Pages 490-497 , April 2010

Age-related differences in brain regions supporting successful encoding of emotional faces

  • Håkan Fischer

      Affiliations

    • Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • Lars Nyberg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Sweden
    • Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University, Sweden
    • ,
  • Lars Bäckman

      Affiliations

    • Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institute, Gävlegatan 16, SE-113 30 Stockholm, Sweden.

Received 28 November 2008 ,Revised 29 April 2009 ,Accepted 7 May 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.05.011

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