Event-related potential correlates of individual differences in working memory capacity

Psychophysiology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 745-754

  Nittono, Hiroshi ^a,d   Nageishi, Yasuhiro ^b   Nakajima, Yoshiaki ^a   Ullsperger, Peter ^c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ASAHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Ba Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin   (Germany)

^d HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Event related potential; Individual differences; Multiple choice reaction time tasks; P300; Working memory capacity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0032731286     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S004857729998099X     Document Type: Article

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