Event-related potentials during mental rotation: Disentangling the contributions of character classification and image transformation

Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 326-335

  Heil, Martin ^a   Bajrić, Jasmin ^a   Rösler, Frank ^a   Hennighausen, Erwin ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Character classification; Event related potentials; Mental rotation; P300

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; ROTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0030468351     PISSN: 02698803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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