Reduced suppression or labile memory? Mechanisms of inefficient filtering of irrelevant information in older adults

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 637-650

  Fabiani, Monica ^a   Low, Kathy A ^a   Wee, Emily ^a   Sable, Jeffrey J ^a   Gratton, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; REPRESSION;

EID: 33646817782     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2006.18.4.637     Document Type: Article

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