Learning and self-regulation of slow cortical potentials in older adults

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 15-35

  Kotchoubey, Boris ^a   Haisst, Stephan ^a   Daum, Irene ^b   Schugens, Marcus ^b   Birbaumer, Niels ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; PERCEPTION; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGING; BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; READING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0033955389     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/036107300243669     Document Type: Article

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