Functional Activation during the Rapid Visual Information Processing Task in a Middle Aged Cohort: An fMRI Study.

ABSTRACT: The Rapid Visual Information Processing (RVIP) task, a serial discrimination task where task performance believed to reflect sustained attention capabilities, is widely used in behavioural research and increasingly in neuroimaging studies. To date, functional neuroimaging research into the RVIP has been undertaken using block analyses, reflecting the sustained processing involved in the task, but not necessarily the transient processes associated with individual trial performance. Furthermore, this research has been limited to young cohorts. This study assessed the behavioural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) outcomes of the RVIP task using both block and event-related analyses in a healthy middle aged cohort (mean age = 53.56 years, n = 16). The results show that the versi

SUBMITTER: Neale C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4619344 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature