Correlating digit span performance and event-related potentials to assess working memory

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 280-289

  Marchand, Yannick ^a,b   Lefebvre, Celeste D ^b   Connolly, John F ^b,c,d  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d IWK HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assessment; Correlation; Digit Span Backwards; Event related brain potentials (ERP); Neuropsychology; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; T WAVE AMPLITUDE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WAVEFORM; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 33748981288     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2006.05.007     Document Type: Article

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