Event-Related Potentials in Young and Elderly Adults during a Visual Spatial Working Memory Task

Clinical EEG and Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 185-192

  Knott, Verner ^a   Millar, Anne ^a   Dulude, Louise ^a   Bradford, Lisa ^a   Alwahhabi, Fahad ^a   Lau, Tim ^a   Shea, Catherine ^a   Wiens, Andrew ^a  

^a ROYAL OTTAWA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Event related Potential; Memory Task; P300; Visual spatial

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENUATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 4744375729     PISSN: 15500594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/155005940403500408     Document Type: Article

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