Der Einfluss des biologischen Alters auf die by Felix Diener

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Klinische u. Gesundheitspsychologie, Psychopathologie, be aware: 1,0, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, forty five Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, summary: Abstract
Research at the results of ordinary getting older on electrophysiological parts of speech processing, just like the N400, is comparatively infrequent. Existent stories convey predominantly a lessen of N400 amplitude and a rise of N400’s height latency with age. This paintings may still end up existent findings and provides extra proof to the problem. Event-related potentials (ERPs) have been recorded from 23 topics (ranging from 19 to sixty nine years) by utilizing right sentences and sentences with semantic anomalies. ERP measurements (mean amplitudes, top latencies) have been subjected to research of variance and linear regression research. In regression research and in research of variance the N400 did express an important lessen of suggest amplitude with age yet no major alterations for N400’s height latency. So the current findings in regards to the effect of ordinary getting older at the N400 amplitude will be proven. also there has been transparent facts, that the N400 is localised over the left hemisphere throughout all age teams. We cause that getting older doesn’t have an effect on the N400 in each case. destiny study should still study which stipulations aid getting older results at the N400 and which do not.