The augmenting-reducing paradigm studied with visually evoked potentials in normal aging

Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 319-325

  Kramer, C J ^a   Hofman, W F ^a   Elton, M ^a   Kerkhof, G A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Augmenting reducing; Flash stimuli; Normal aging; VEPs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE;

EID: 0030472632     PISSN: 02698803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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