Research article summary (published 30 Jul 2003):

Cognition and aging: a highly selective overview of event-related potential (ERP) data.

Full Abstract

An overview of highly selected cognitive aging investigations of deviance detection, episodic memory and working memory reveals two primary themes:
(1) when variability in elderly samples has been assessed, it has proven useful in understanding age-related changes in cognition; and (2) there is a frontal lobe contribution to at least some age-related changes in cognition. However, there are too few ERP age-related investigations of individual differences to determine whether the changes in patterns of ERP responding can be deemed "compensatory" or "inefficient." It is suggested that, to the extent possible, future electrophysiological investigations of cognitive aging (as well as other physiological measurement techniques) include individual difference measures that will enable the determination of the implication of a given neural pattern in the genesis of a given, age-related behavioral outcome pattern.

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Author information

Author/s: Friedman, David (D);

Affiliation: Cognitive Electrophysiology Laboratory, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY 10032, USA. df12(-atsign-)columbia.edu

Grants: AG05213 (Agency:NIA NIH HHS) ; AG09988 (Agency:NIA NIH HHS)

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.; Review

Journal: Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology (J Clin Exp Neuropsychol), published in Netherlands. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2003-Aug; vol 25 (issue 5) : pp 702-20

Dates: Created 2003/06/19; Completed 2003/09/11; Revised 2008/04/14;

PMID: 12815507, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Adolescent Adult Aged Aging - physiology Cognition - physiology

Evoked Potentials Humans Memory - physiology Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology Recruitment, Neurophysiological - physiology

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