P300 and handedness: On the possible contribution of corpus callosal size to ERPs

Psychophysiology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 497-507

  Polich, John ^a   Hoffman, Lisa D ^a,b  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Event related potentials; Gender; Handedness; P300; Task difficulty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0031927451     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0048577298970792     Document Type: Article

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