Event-related potentials in the study of sensory discrimination and motor response in simple and choice reaction tasks

Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 34-43

  Goodin, Douglas S ^a,b   Aminoff, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive evoked potential; Event related potential; Evoked potential; Information processing; Mental chronometry; P3; P3 Latency; P300; Stimulus evaluation

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; RESPONSE TIME; REVIEW; VISUAL STIMULATION;

BRAIN; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SENSATION;

EID: 0032455178     PISSN: 07360258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004691-199801000-00005     Document Type: Review

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