Age-related frontoparietal changes during the control of bottom-up and top-down attention: An ERP study

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 477-488

  Li, Ling ^a,b   Gratton, Caterina ^a   Fabiani, Monica ^c   Knight, Robert T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Control of attention; Event related potentials (ERPs); N2pc; P300; Visual pop out; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; VISUAL SEARCH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84869097386     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2012.02.025     Document Type: Article

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