Breaking the waves: Age differences in electrical brain activity when reading text with distractors

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 126-139

  Phillips, Natalie A ^a   Lesperance, Dayle ^a,b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037337435     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.18.1.126     Document Type: Article

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