Effects of advancing age on the processing of semantic anomalies in adults: Evidence from event-related brain potentials

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 439-460

  Faustmann, Anja ^a   Murdoch, Bruce E ^a   Finnigan, Simon P ^a   Copland, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTIC ANOMALY; SEMANTICS; VISION; WORKING MEMORY;

AGED; AGING; APHASIA; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 34548825455     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610730701525378     Document Type: Article

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