Age-related increases in within-person variability: Delta and theta oscillations indicate that the elderly are not always old

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 495, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 159-163

  Schmiedt Fehr, Christina ^a   Dühl, Saskia ^a   Basar Eroglu, Canan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Auditory Go NoGo; Event related oscillations; Intraindividual variability; Response inhibition; Single trial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; BRAIN REGION; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGING; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; DELTA RHYTHM; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; THETA RHYTHM; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955141015     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.03.062     Document Type: Article

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