title: The contribution of functional brain imaging to our understanding of cognitive aging.
abstract: The study of cognitive aging seeks to determine the psychological and neural mechanisms underlying age-related decline in cognitive performance. New methods in functional brain imaging are beginning to provide possible answers to questions regarding age-related cognitive decline.
authors.affiliation: Henry H. Wheeler, Jr. Brain Imaging Center at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gazzaley
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: D'Esposito
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000098:blood supply / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000502:physiology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed