Enhanced and bilateralized visual sensory processing in the ventral stream may be a feature of normal aging

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1576-1586

  De Sanctis, Pierfilippo ^a   Katz, Richard ^a,d   Wylie, Glenn R ^a,c   Sehatpour, Pejman ^a   Alexopoulos, George S ^d   Foxe, John J ^a,b  

^a NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c KESSLER FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d The Cornell Institute of Geriatric Psychiatry   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Compensation; ERPs; Laterality; Sensory processing; Visual

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 49149131911     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2007.03.021     Document Type: Article

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