Language is a crucial and complex lifelong faculty, underpinned by dynamic interactions
within and between specialized brain networks. Whereas normal aging impairs specific …

The corpus callosum is the largest white matter structure in the human brain, connecting
cortical regions of both hemispheres. Complete and partial callosotomies or callosal lesion …

Many but not all cognitive abilities decline during ageing. Some even improve due to lifelong
experience. The critical capacities of attention and executive functions have been widely …

Until the mid 1990s, available evidence regarding neurocognitive aging could be
summarized in a simple statement: cognitive deficits in healthy older adults are largest for …

The number of reports on the cognitive neuroscience of aging has increased in recent years,
and most of these studies have found many similarities in the patterns of activity in young …

The aim of the study was to compare the long-term efficacy of high versus low frequency
repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), applied bilaterally over the dorsolateral …

Normal aging is associated with cognitive decline and underlying brain dysfunction.
Previous studies concentrated less on brain network changes at a systems level. Our goal …

Normal aging is characterized by decline in cognitive functioning in conjunction with
extensive gray matter (GM) atrophy. A first aim of this study was to determine GM volume …

Background: Older adults process speech differently, but it is not yet clear how aging affects
different levels of processing natural, continuous speech, both in terms of bottom-up acoustic …

Preserved cognitive performance is a key feature of successful aging. Several theoretical
models have been proposed to explain the putative underlying relationship between brain …