Feature-selective attention: Evidence for a decline in old age

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 474, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 5-8

  Quigley, Cliodhna ^a   Andersen, Søren K ^a   Schulze, Lars ^a,b   Grunwald, Martin ^a   Müller, Matthias M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ageing; EEG; Feature selective attention; SSVEP

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CINERADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM DOT KINEMATOGRAM; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; STEADY STATE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950935226     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.02.053     Document Type: Article

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