An electrophysiological study of response conflict processing across the lifespan: Assessing the roles of conflict monitoring, cue utilization, response anticipation, and response suppression

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3305-3316

  Hämmerer, Dorothea ^a   Li, Shu Chen ^a   Müller, Viktor ^a   Lindenberger, Ulman ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognitive control; ERP; Lifespan development; Motor control; Response inhibition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CONFLICT; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESPAN; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 77955841786     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.07.014     Document Type: Article

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