Differential effects of aging on processes underlying task switching

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 67-80

  West, Robert ^a   Travers, Stephanie ^b  

^a Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^b LUTHER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognitive control; Event related brain potentials; Partial Least Squares Analysis; Task switching

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 52949138980     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2008.03.001     Document Type: Article

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