Audiovisual temporal discrimination is less efficient with aging: An event-related potential study

NeuroReport

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 554-558

  Setti, Annalisa ^a   Finnigan, Simon ^a,b   Sobolewski, Rory ^a   McLaren, Laura ^a   Robertson, Ian H ^a   Reilly, Richard B ^a   Anne Kenny, Rose ^a,c   Newell, Fiona N ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

aging; audiovisual; cross sensory; event related potential; suppression; temporal order; temporal window

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL STIMULUS; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTOCENTRAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STIMULUS ONSET ASYNCHRONY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960291246     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: 1473558X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e328348c731     Document Type: Article

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