The chronometry of mental ability: An event-related potential analysis of an auditory oddball discrimination task

Intelligence

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 571-586

  Beauchamp, Chris M ^a   Stelmack, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory discrimination; Event related potentials; Mental ability; Mismatch negativity (MMN); P300

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750335263     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2006.03.007     Document Type: Article

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