N400 effect

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Older age decreases N400 effect in humans.
“For older adults, this effect was reduced, even though there was no difference between both age groups either in the magnitude of the semantic congruency judgments or in the behavioral congruency effect.”
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The search for meaning: Age-related differences in the semantic N400 effect for picture pairs are unrelated to semantic benefits in episodic memory
Psychology and aging12 Jan 2026

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