Age differences in attentional control: An event-related potential approach

Psychophysiology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 407-416

  Kray, Jutta ^a   Eppinger, Ben ^a   Mecklinger, Axel ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age differences; Attentional control; Event related potential; Interference control; Standard and reverse Stroop task; Task switching

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; AGED; AGING; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 26944486938     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2005.00298.x     Document Type: Article

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