Effects of healthy aging and gender on the electrophysiological correlates of semantic sentence comprehension : the development of Dutch normative data

Purpose: The clinical use of event-related potentials in patients with language disor-ders is increasingly acknowledged. For this purpose, normative data should be avail-able. Within this context, healthy aging and gender effects on the electrophysiologi-cal correlates of semantic sentence comprehension were investigated.Method: One hundred and ten healthy subjects (55 men and 55 women), divided among three age groups (young, middle aged, and elderly), performed a semantic sen-tence congruity task in the visual modality during electroencephalographic recording.Results: The early visual complex... Mehr ...