Sequential information processing during a mental arithmetic is reflected in the time course of event-related brain potentials

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 204-213

  Iguchi, Yoshinobu ^a   Hashimoto, Isao ^a,b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

A positive slow potential; Adding task; Event related brain potentials; Mental arithmetic; Sequential information processing; Visual digit presentation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PROCESSES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033986914     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(99)00244-8     Document Type: Article

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