Lateralized readiness potentials reveal motor slowing in the aging brain

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Roggeveen, Alexa B ^a   Prime, David J ^b   Ward, Lawrence M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 34247551675     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/62.2.P78     Document Type: Article

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