Age-related loss in attention-based modulation of tactile stimuli at early stages of somatosensory processing

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1502-1513

  Bolton, David A E ^a,b   Staines, W Richard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Attention; Event related potential; Oddball; Sensory gating; Tactile

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FINGER; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIBRATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; FEMALE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SENSORY GATING; TOUCH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861225955     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.03.002     Document Type: Article

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