Age-related decline in attentional shifting: Evidence from ERPs

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 556, Issue , 2013, Pages 129-134

  Cona, Giorgia ^a   Bisiacchi, Patrizia S ^a   Amodio, Piero ^a   Schiff, Sami ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Attention; Attentional shifting; ERPs; N2; P3a

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450 3A; SILVER; SILVER CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL SHIFTING; ATTENUATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL PRESENTATION TASK;

AGING; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL SHIFTING; ERPS; N2; P3A;

ADULT; AGING; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84887379076     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.10.008     Document Type: Article

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