Comparison of Early Cortical Networks in Efficient and Inefficient Visual Search: An Event-Related Potential Study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1039-1051

  Leonards, Ute ^a,b   Palix, Julie ^a   Michel, Christoph ^a   Ibanez, Vicente ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRODE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VISION;

EID: 0142057003     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892903770007425     Document Type: Article

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