The Effects of Aging on Conflict Detection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Lucci, Giuliana ^a,b   Berchicci, Marika ^a   Spinelli, Donatella ^a,b   Taddei, Francesco ^a   Di Russo, Francesco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME FORO ITALICO   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873886399     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056566     Document Type: Article

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