Event-related brain potentials dissociate visual working memory processes under categorial and identical comparison conditions

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 147-155

  Berti, Stefan ^a   Geissler, Hans Georg ^a   Lachmann, Thomas ^a   Mecklinger, Axel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Delayed matching task; Event related brain potential; Slow wave potential; Vision; Working memory process

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0034103094     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(99)00051-8     Document Type: Article

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