Can the level of prefrontal activity provide an index of performance in humans?

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 219, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 71-74

  Casini, Laurence ^a   Macar, Francoise ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Attention; Cortical activity; Level of performance; Prefrontal cortex; Scalp current density; Slow cortical potentials; Temporal processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030598373     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(96)13188-8     Document Type: Article

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