Adjustments of cognitive control in younger and older adults

Cortex

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 570-581

  West, Robert ^a   Moore, Kara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Error processing; Task switching

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROMODULATION; PARIETAL LOBE; RESPONSE TIME; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 21644439627     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70197-7     Document Type: Article

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