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Age differences in visual evoked potential estimates on interhemishperic transfer
Neuropsychology
Format: Journal Article
Publication Year: 1996
Pages: 263-271
Library/Archive: (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved
Sources ID: 22681
Visibility: Private
Zotero Collections: Contexts of Contemplation Project
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Twenty-six younger (ages 18–36 years) and 19 older (ages 60–88 years) healthy right-handed men and women were tested for interhemispheric transfer by using visual evoked potentials lo laterally presented checkerboards. Interhemispheric transfer time (IHTT) was estimated by subtracting latencies for both P100 and N160 peaks of the waveform contralateral to the stimulus from the waveform ipsilateral to the stimulus for homologous sites. The quality of interhemispheric transfer was estimated by comparing peak-to-peak amplitudes for homologous sites. IHTT did not change across age, but there was a suppression of the waveform over the indirectly stimulated hemisphere in the older participants. The significance of this finding for age-related changes in functions mediated by the corpus callosum is discussed.

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