Differential effects of normal aging on sources of standard N1, target N1 and target P300 auditory event-related brain potentials revealed by low resolution electromagnetic tomography (LORETA)

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 160-174

  Anderer, Peter ^a   Pascual Marqui, Roberto D ^a   Semlitsch, Heribert V ^a   Saletu, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Aging; Event related potentials; Nl generators; P300 generators; Source localization; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000645602     PISSN: 00134694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0168-5597(97)00080-4     Document Type: Article

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