Lifespan changes in global and selective stopping and performance adjustments

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue DEC, 2011, Pages

  van de Laar, Maria C ^a   van den Wildenberg, Wery P M ^a   van Boxtel, Geert J M ^b   van der Molen, Maurits W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive aging; Cognitive control; Development; Lifespan; Stop signal paradigm

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861676123     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00357     Document Type: Article

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