Keeping focused: Sustained spatial selective visual attention is maintained in healthy old age

Brain Research

Volumn 1469, Issue , 2012, Pages 24-34

  Quigley, Cliodhna ^a,b   Andersen, Soren K ^a,c   Müller, Matthias M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; EEG; Spatial visual attention; SSVEP; Sustained selective attention; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SENESCENCE; STEADY STATE; SUSTAINED SPATIAL SELECTIVE VISUAL ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84864767537     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.06.019     Document Type: Article

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