The Madrid card sorting test (MCST): A task switching paradigm to study executive attention with event-related potentials

Brain Research Protocols

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 27-37

  Barceló, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cognitive set; Event related potentials; Orienting response; P300; Prefrontal cortex; Task switching; Wisconsin card sorting test; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MADRID CARD SORTING TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0037354479     PISSN: 1385299X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1385-299X(03)00013-8     Document Type: Article

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