Age-related differences in working memory performance in a 2-back task

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue AUG, 2011, Pages

  Wild Wall, Nele ^a   Falkenstein, Michael ^a   Gajewski, Patrick D ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

Author keywords

2 back task; Aging; Event related potentials; P300; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863177013     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00186     Document Type: Article

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