Increased Early Processing of Task-Irrelevant Auditory Stimuli in Older Adults

The inhibitory deficit hypothesis of cognitive aging posits that older adults’ inability to adequately suppress processing of irrelevant information is a major source of cognitive decline. Prior research has demonstrated that in response to task-irrelevant auditory stimuli there is an age-associated...

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Main Authors: Tusch, Erich S., Alperin, Brittany R., Holcomb, Phillip J., Daffner, Kirk R.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5091907/