Slow negative brain potentials as reflections of specific modular resources of cognition

Biological Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 109-141

  Rösler, Frank ^a   Heil, Martin ^a   Röder, Brigitte ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognition; ERPs; Imagery; Memory; Mental resources; Slow waves; Topographic mapping

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS;

EID: 0343990041     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-0511(96)05225-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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