Differences in the ability to process a visuo-spatial task are reflected in event-related slow cortical potentials of human subjects

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 269, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 137-140

  Lamm, Claus ^a   Bauer, Herbert ^a   Vitouch, Oliver ^a   Gstättner, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ability; Event related potentials; Human cognition; Individual differences; Neuronal efficiency; Slow potentials; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTRODE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPEECH; THINKING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033575510     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00441-3     Document Type: Article

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