Attentional training in elderly subjects affects voluntarily oriented, but not automatic attention: A neurophysiological study

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 379-386

  Le Pera, Domenica ^a   Ranghi, Francesca ^a   De Armas, Liala ^a   Valeriani, Massimiliano ^b   Giaquinto, Salvatore ^a  

^a IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

^b BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

N140 potentials; P300 potentials; Repetitive recordings; Somatosensory evoked potentials; Spatial attention; Training

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRAINING;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TEACHING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 21444449090     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2005.05.001     Document Type: Article

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