Effects of age on working memory: An event-related potential study

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 321-334

  Pelosi, Luciana ^a   Blumhardt, Lance D ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age; Auditory; ERPs; Visual; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AGING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0032933413     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(98)00035-4     Document Type: Article

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