Direction effects in number word comparison: An event-related potential study

NeuroReport

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 1853-1856

  Kaan, Edith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Number comparison; Number line; Number words; Numeric direction; Numeric distance

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 27544510188     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000185016.21692.50     Document Type: Article

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