Age effects on central nervous system activity reflected in the olfactory event-related potential. Evidence for decline in middle age

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 855, Issue , 1998, Pages 598-607

  Murphy, Claire ^a,b   Wetter, Spencer ^a   Morgan, Charlie D ^c   Ellison, Dennard W ^b   Geisler, Mark W ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ATTENTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SMELLING;

EID: 0032460461     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb10630.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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