Electrophysiological correlates of adult age differences in attentional control of auditory processing

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 249-260

  Passow, Susanne ^a,b   Westerhausen, René ^b,c   Hugdahl, Kenneth ^b,c,d   Wartenburger, Isabell ^e   Heekeren, Hauke R ^a,f   Lindenberger, Ulman ^a   Li, Shu Chen ^a,g  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c Division of Psychiatry   (Norway)

^d HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^f FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^g DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Attention; Auditory perception; Conflict monitoring; ERP

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PROCESSING; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WAVEFORM; ATTENTIONAL CONTROL; CONTROL; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN;

AGING; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CONFLICT MONITORING; ERP;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890537068     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs306     Document Type: Article

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