Cortex
Volume 46, Issue 4 , Pages 535-549 , April 2010

Age-related changes in prefrontal cortex activity are associated with behavioural deficits in both temporal and spatial context memory retrieval in older adults

Received 3 December 2008 ,Revised 5 May 2009 ,Accepted 2 July 2009.

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