Cortical activation, signal-to-noise ratio and stochastic resonance during information processing in man

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 110, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1193-1203

  Winterer, G ^a   Ziller, M ^a   Dorn, H ^a   Frick, K ^a   Mulert, C ^a   Dahhan, N ^a   Herrmann, W M ^a   Coppola, R ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical activation; EEG; Event related potentials; Information processing; N100; Reaction time; Signal to noise ratio; Stochastic resonance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0033010342     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(99)00059-0     Document Type: Article

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