Age-associated modulations of cerebral oscillatory patterns related to attention control

NeuroImage

Volumn 82, Issue , 2013, Pages 531-546

  Deiber, Marie Pierre ^a,b   Ibañez, Vicente ^b   Missonnier, Pascal ^b   Rodriguez, Cristelle ^b   Giannakopoulos, Panteleimon ^b,c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aging; EEG; Orienting; Oscillatory activity; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; DEPRESSION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

AGING; EEG; ORIENTING; OSCILLATORY ACTIVITY; VISUAL ATTENTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84879996766     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.06.037     Document Type: Article

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