Event-related potentials dissociate perceptual from response-related age effects in visual search

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 973-985

  Wiegand, Iris ^a   Finke, Kathrin ^a   Müller, Hermann J ^a,b   Töllner, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Contralateral delayactivity; Executive control; Lateralized readiness potential; N2 posterior contralateral; Priming; Visual attention; Visual search; Visual short term memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ERROR; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATERALIZED READINESS POTENTIAL; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PERCEPTION; POSTERIOR CONTRALATERAL NEGATIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPETITION PRIMING; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REPETITION PRIMING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870512183     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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