When compensation fails: Attentional deficits in healthy ageing caused by visual distraction

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 3185-3192

  Wascher, Edmund ^a   Schneider, Daniel ^a   Hoffmann, Sven ^a   Beste, Christian ^b   Sänger, Jessica ^c  

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

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognitive control; Competitive processing; Conflicting information; ERP

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LUMINANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL INFORMATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84868218922     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.09.033     Document Type: Article

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