Age-dependent changes of auditory evoked potentials-Effect of task difficulty

Biological Psychology

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 196-208

  Gaál, Zsófia Anna ^a   Csuhaj, Roland ^a   Molnár, Márk ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Aging; Auditory event related potentials; Oddball task; P3b and P3a components

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 35348906951     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2007.07.009     Document Type: Article

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