Cortex
Volume 46, Issue 4 , Pages 462-473 , April 2010

Age differences in prefontal recruitment during verbal working memory maintenance depend on memory load

Received 9 December 2008 ,Revised 20 July 2009 ,Accepted 7 November 2009.

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