Cortex
Volume 46, Issue 4 , Pages 522-534 , April 2010

Ageing affects brain activity in highly educated older adults: An ERP study using a word-stem priming task

  • Alexandra Osorio

      Affiliations

    • LENA CNRS UPR-640 UPMC – Hôpital de la Salpètriere, Paris, France
    • Department of Basic Psychology II, UNED, Madrid, Spain
    • ,
  • Séverine Fay

      Affiliations

    • UMR-CNRS 6234 CeRCA, Université François Rabelais, Tours, France
    • ,
  • Viviane Pouthas

      Affiliations

    • LENA CNRS UPR-640 UPMC – Hôpital de la Salpètriere, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Soledad Ballesteros

      Affiliations

    • Department of Basic Psychology II, UNED, Madrid, Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Basic Psychology II, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Juan del Rosal, 10, 28040 Madrid, Spain.

Received 12 December 2008 ,Revised 6 June 2009 ,Accepted 31 August 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.09.003

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Volume 46, Issue 4 , Pages 522-534 , April 2010

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