Older adults, unlike younger adults, do not modulate alpha power to suppress irrelevant information

NeuroImage

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1127-1133

  Vaden, Ryan J ^a   Hutcheson, Nathan L ^a   McCollum, Lesley A ^a   Kentros, Jonathan ^a   Visscher, Kristina M ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Attention; EEG; Oscillations; Sensory gating; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROMODULATION; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY GATING; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; SENSORY GATING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866140226     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.07.050     Document Type: Article

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