Inattentional amnesia to words in a high attentional load task

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 768-776

  Ruz, María ^a,b   Worden, Michael S ^a   Tudela, Pío ^b   McCandliss, Bruce D ^a,c  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c Sackler Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRAWING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INATTENTIONAL AMNESIA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 18244376365     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0898929053747685     Document Type: Article

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