Event-Related Brain Potentials — Manifestations of Cognitive Activity
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1979
Keywords
Single Trial, P300 Amplitude, P300 Latency, Contingent Negative Variation, Error Trial
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-642-67304-7_22
Abstract
The manner in which the process of aging affects human information processing is of considerable theoretical and practical interest. Performance measures reflecting psychological processes, such as short-term memory organization, utility of redundancy, and- motor performance, change with age (see, for example, Talland, 1968; Craik, 1977; Rabbitt, 1977; Welford, 1977). The mechanisms underlying these changes and their basis in the physiology of the aging nervous system are of great interest. It is often not clear, however, how changes in the psychological processes are related to the neural concomitants of senescence. There are changes in the brain associated with aging, such as atrophy or the accumulation of certain chemical substances (see, for example, Bondareff, 1977). Information is needed which will help relate complex cognitive behavior to such measurable attributes of neural processes.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Event-Related Brain Potentials — Manifestations of Cognitive Activity, in F. Hoffmeister & C. Müller (Eds.), Brain Function in Old Age: Evaluation of Changes and Disorders, Springer, p. 318-335
Scholar Commons Citation
McCarthy, Gregory and Donchin, Emanuel, "Event-Related Brain Potentials — Manifestations of Cognitive Activity" (1979). Psychology Faculty Publications. 232.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/psy_facpub/232
