Brain potentials before and during memory scanning

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 28-37

  Starr, A ^a   Dong, C J ^a   Michalewski, H J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory short term memory; Contingent negative variation; Event related potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 0030200031     PISSN: 00134694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0921-884X(96)95147-4     Document Type: Article

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