Performance monitoring across the lifespan: Still maturing post-conflict regulation in children and declining task-set monitoring in older adults

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 46, Issue P1, 2014, Pages 105-123

  Hämmerer, Dorothea ^a,b   Müller, Viktor ^b   Li, Shu Chen ^a,b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive aging; Cognitive control; Cognitive development; Context; ERP; FMRI; Lifespan; Performance monitoring; Task set maintenance

Indexed keywords

AGING; BEHAVIOR; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

AGING; BEHAVIOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; LEARNING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84908661532     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.06.008     Document Type: Review

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