Cortex
Volume 46, Issue 4 , Pages 498-506 , April 2010

Electrophysiological evidence for aging effects on local contextual processing

  • Noa Fogelson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California Berkeley, CA, USA
    • Department of Psychology, University of La Coruña, Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California Berkeley, 132 Barker Hall, MC #3190, Berkeley, CA 94720-3190, USA.
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  • Mona Shah

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California Berkeley, CA, USA
    • ,
  • Frederique Bonnet-Brilhault

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California Berkeley, CA, USA
    • Université François Rabelais de Tours, UMR-S930 and CNRS FRE 2448, Inserm, U 930, CHRU de Tours, Hôpital Bretonneau, Centre de Pédopsychiatrie, Tours, France
    • ,
  • Robert T. Knight

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California Berkeley, CA, USA

Received 1 October 2008 ,Revised 5 December 2008 ,Accepted 6 May 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.05.007

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