Age-related top-down suppression deficit in the early stages of cortical visual memory processing

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 35, 2008, Pages 13122-13126

  Gazzaley, Adam ^a,b   Clapp, Wesley ^a   Kelley, Jon ^a   McEvoy, Kevin ^b   Knight, Robert T ^b   D'Esposito, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Attention; Distraction; Inhibitory deficit; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITIVE AGING; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; BEHAVIOR; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 51349097450     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0806074105     Document Type: Article

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