Age effects on response monitoring in a mental-rotation task

Biological Psychology

Volumn 51, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 201-221

  Band, Guido P H ^a   Kok, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aging; Error potentials; LRP; Response monitoring; SAT; Strategy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; ERROR; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; VELOCITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033976538     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-0511(99)00038-1     Document Type: Article

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