Retrospective attention enhances visual working memory in the young but not the old: An ERP study

Psychophysiology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 465-476

  Duarte, Audrey ^a   Hearons, Patricia ^a   Jiang, Yashu ^a   Delvin, Mary Courtney ^a   Newsome, Rachel N ^b   Verhaeghen, Paul ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Attention; Cognition; EEG ERP; Learning Memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875670184     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12034     Document Type: Article

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