Electrophysiological and behavioral correlates of stable automatic semantic retrieval in aging

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 160-171

  Grieder, Matthias ^a   Crinelli, Raffaella M ^b   Koenig, Thomas ^a   Wahlund, Lars Olof ^b   Dierks, Thomas ^a   Wirth, Miranka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Memory; N400; Randomization test; Semantic priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855749543     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.11.014     Document Type: Article

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