Age-related ERP differences at retrieval persist despite age-invariant performance and left-frontal negativity during encoding

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 432, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 151-156

  Nessler, Doreen ^a   Johnson Jr , Ray ^b   Bersick, Michael ^a   Friedman, David ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Episodic memory; ERPs; Familiarity; Recollection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 39149100289     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.12.016     Document Type: Article

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