Event-Related Potentials in the Frontal Lobe during Performance of a Visual Duration Discrimination Task

Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 351-360

  Paul, Isabelle ^a   Le Dantec, Christophe ^a   Bernard, Christian ^a   Lalonde, Robert ^a   Rebaï, Mohamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

Duration discrimination; Prefrontal cortex; Time estimation; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0346158256     PISSN: 07360258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004691-200309000-00007     Document Type: Article

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