Detecting pop-out targets in contexts of varying homogeneity: Investigating homogeneity coding with event-related brain potentials (ERPs)

Brain Research

Volumn 1138, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 136-147

  Schubö, Anna ^a   Wykowska, Agnieszka ^a   Müller, Hermann J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Context homogeneity; ERP; Homogeneity coding; Irregularity detection; N2p; N2pc; P3; Pop out detection; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; DATA ANALYSIS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33847101922     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.12.059     Document Type: Article

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