Response preparation begins before mental rotation is finished: Evidence from event-related brain potentials

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 217-232

  Heil, Martin ^a   Rauch, Melina ^a   Hennighausen, Erwin ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asynchronous discrete processes; Continuous flow model; Discrete information processing; Lateralized readiness potential; Mental rotation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; VISION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032118982     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-6918(98)00012-2     Document Type: Article

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