Consistent pre-stimulus influences on auditory perception across the lifespan

Steven W. McNair, Stephanie J. Kayser, Christoph Kayser

Abstract: Highlights•Younger and older adults completed a frequency in noise discrimination task.•Influences of pre-stimulus activity were consistent across groups.•Despite changes in the slope of EEG spectral density between groups.•And despite changes in evoked response latencies and amplitudes between groups.