Fig. 2.

(A) ERPs elicited by nonlinguistic probes at left and right central electrode sites (C5/6 for illustrative purposes), plotted separately for probes embedded in the attended and unattended narratives. (B) Topographic scalp plots of attention modulations (attend–unattend difference waves) of the primary components of the ERPs for each age group are plotted with individual amplitude scales. Time windows used for each plot can be found in Table 2. Asterisks below the plots indicate a significant difference between attend and unattend amplitudes (*p < .05, ∼p < .10 with scalp topography at 50% transparency, n.s. p > .10, with scalp topography at 75% transparency. Statistical details are in Table 2).