Preserved discrimination performance and neural processing during crossmodal attention in aging

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Mishra, Jyoti ^a   Gazzaley, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84894281417     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081894     Document Type: Article

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