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-assoc...

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Main Authors: Erich S Tusch, Brittany R Alperin, Phillip J Holcomb, Kirk R Daffner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5091907?pdf=render