Effects of task difficulty on evoked gamma activity and ERPs in a visual discrimination task

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 113, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1742-1753

  Senkowski, Daniel ^a   Herrmann, Christoph S ^a  

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

Author keywords

40 Hz; Color discrimination; Difficulty; Event related potential; Gamma; P3

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036848245     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(02)00266-3     Document Type: Article

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