Age-related changes in cognitive conflict processing: An event-related potential study

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1925-1935

  Mager, Ralph ^a   Bullinger, Alex H ^a   Brand, Serge ^a   Schmidlin, Maria ^a   Schärli, Heinz ^a   Müller Spahn, Franz ^a   Störmer, Robert ^a   Falkenstein, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conflict; ERPs; Interference; Normal ageing; Stroop task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONFLICT; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STROOP TASK;

ADULT; AGING; BRAIN; COGNITION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DECISION MAKING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 35148854192     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2006.08.001     Document Type: Article

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