Relation between level of prefrontal activity and subject's performance

Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 117-125

  Casini, Laurence ^a   Macar, Françoise ^a   Giard, Marie Hélène ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TRAINING;

EID: 0032783102     PISSN: 02698803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027//0269-8803.13.2.117     Document Type: Article

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