The effects of healthy aging on auditory processing in humans as indexed by transient brain responses

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 902-911

  Matilainen, Laura E ^a,b   Talvitie, Sanna S ^a,b   Pekkonen, Eero ^b   Alku, Paavo ^a   May, Patrick J C ^a,b   Tiitinen, Hannu ^a,b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aging; Auditory; Human; Magnetoencephalography; MEG; Transient brain response

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY PROCESSING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SOUND DETECTION; TRANSIENT BRAIN RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 77952425763     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.01.007     Document Type: Article

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