Research in Geriatric Psychophysiology

Authors

Gregory A. Miller, University of Illinois
Theodore R. Bashore
Lawrence A. Farwell
Emanuel Donchin, University of South FloridaFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

1987

Abstract

• focus on what psychophysiology is able to say about the psychological aging of the individual, as distinguished . . . from biological and social aging
• nature of cognitive changes with age
• cognitive abnormalities [that] develop in association with common psychiatric and neurological disorders in old age
• attempt to understand the locus of the pervasive cognitive slowing that comes with advanced age
• exemplifies how psychophysiological measures can help dissect complex cognitive processes
• brain-wave measures / event-related brain potentials

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Citation / Publisher Attribution

Research in Geriatric Psychophysiology, In K. W. Schaie (Ed.), Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics V. 7, Springer, p. 1-27

Scholar Commons Citation

Miller, Gregory A.; Bashore, Theodore R.; Farwell, Lawrence A.; and Donchin, Emanuel, "Research in Geriatric Psychophysiology" (1987). Psychology Faculty Publications. 287.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/psy_facpub/287