Covert signs of expectancy in serial reaction time tasks revealed by event-related potentials

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 342-353

  Sommer, Werner ^a   Leuthold, Hartmut ^a   Soetens, Eric ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEARING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033072246     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03206892     Document Type: Article

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