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1 The role of psychosocial context, age, and intelligence in memory performance of older men. Arbuckle TY, Gold DP, Andres D, Schwartzman A, Chaikelson J 1558702
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2 Everyday activity parameters and competence in older adults. Pushkar D, Arbuckle T, Conway M, Chaikelson J, Maag U 9416629
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3 Individual differences in trajectory of intellectual development over 45 years of adulthood. Arbuckle TY, Maag U, Pushkar D, Chaikelson JS 9883465
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4 Social behavior and off-target verbosity in elderly people. Pushkar D, Basevitz P, Arbuckle T, Nohara-LeClair M, Lapidus S, Peled M 10879589
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5 Effect of off-target verbosity on communication efficiency in a referential communication task. Arbuckle TY, Nohara-LeClair M, Pushkar D 10755290
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6 Breaking the waves: age differences in electrical brain activity when reading text with distractors. Phillips NA, Lesperance D 12641317
PSYCHOLOGY
7 Regret and quality of life across the adult life span: the influence of disengagement and available future goals. Wrosch C, Bauer I, Scheier MF 16420140
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8 Regret intensity, diurnal cortisol secretion, and physical health in older individuals: evidence for directional effects and protective factors. Wrosch C, Bauer I, Miller GE, Lupien S 17563187
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Title:Breaking the waves: age differences in electrical brain activity when reading text with distractors.
Authors:Phillips NA,  Lesperance D
Link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12641317?dopt=Abstract
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PMID:12641317 Category:Psychol Aging Date Added:2019-06-07
Dept Affiliation: PSYCHOLOGY
1 Centre for Research in Human Development, Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada. phillip@vax2.concordia.ca

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Breaking the waves: age differences in electrical brain activity when reading text with distractors.

Psychol Aging. 2003 Mar;18(1):126-39

Authors: Phillips NA, Lesperance D

Abstract

The authors tested whether older adults have greater difficulty than younger adults in ignoring task-irrelevant information during reading as a result of age-related decline in inhibitory processes. Participants were shown target sentences containing distractor words. They were instructed to read aloud each sentence and ignore distractors. The N400 event-related potential (ERP) was used to measure the extent of semantic processing of target and distracting information. It showed that younger adults semantically processed both target and distracting material, whereas online processing of target sentences in older adults was disrupted by the distractors. In older adults, memory for target information related to their susceptibility to distraction and inhibition efficiency. Implications for age-differences in inhibitory control, working memory, and resource capacity are discussed.

PMID: 12641317 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]




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