The effect of aging on event-related potentials and behavioral responses: Comparison of tonal, phonologic and semantic targets

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 117, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1974-1989

  Geal Dor, Miriam ^a   Goldstein, Abraham ^a   Kamenir, Yury ^a   Babkoff, Harvey ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aging; Event related potentials; Hemispheric asymmetry; P300; Phonological task; Semantic task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33747353369     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2006.05.024     Document Type: Article

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