Frontal and inferior temporal cortical activity in visual target detection: Evidence from high spatially sampled event-related potentials

Brain Topography

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-14

  Potts, Geoffrey F ^a,c   Liotti, Mario ^b   Tucker, Don M ^a   Posner, Michael I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Current density mapping; ERP topography; N2; P2; Selective attention; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0029827848     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01191637     Document Type: Article

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