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Table 3 Stage 2 session content and timing, listed by category

From: The Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) study protocol: a cross-sectional, lifespan, multidisciplinary examination of healthy cognitive ageing

Session

Measure

Modality

Approx. duration (mins)

Session 1

   
 

Weight

Physiological

2

 

Height

Physiological

2

 

Blood Pressure

Physiological

11

 

Visual short-term memory

Behavioural

35

 

Emotion expression recognition

Behavioural

20

 

T1-weighted structural image

MRI

5

 

T2-weighted structural image

MRI

5

 

Diffusion-Weighted Images

MRI

10

 

Magnetisation Transfer Ratio images

MRI

5

 

Resting state T2*-weighted

fMRI

9

 

Movie watching T2*-weighted

fMRI

8

 

Sensorimotor task T2*-weighted

fMRI

9

 

Field maps

fMRI

1

Session 2

   
 

Face recognition: familiar faces

Behavioural

10

 

Face recognition: unfamiliar faces

Behavioural

10

 

Fluid Intelligence

Behavioural

20

 

Hotel task

Behavioural

20

 

Sentence comprehension

Behavioural

30

 

Resting state

MEG

9

 

Sensorimotor task

MEG

12

Session 3a

   
 

Emotional reactivity and regulation

Behavioural

55

 

Force matching

Behavioural

14

 

Motor learning

Behavioural

21

 

Picture-picture priming

Behavioural

20

 

Proverb comprehension

Behavioural

5

 

Tip-of-the-tongue

Behavioural

10

Session 3b

   
 

Emotional memory

Behavioural

90

 

Picture-picture priming

Behavioural

20

 

Proverb comprehension

Behavioural

5

 

Tip-of-the-tongue

Behavioural

10