Attention or memory? Effects of familiarity and novelty on the Nc component of event-related brain potentials in six-month-old infants

International Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 837-867

  Ackles, Patrick K ^a   Cook, Kathryn G ^b  

^a ELMHURST COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NORTH PARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Event related potentials; Infants; Nc component; Recognition memory; Visual fixations

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL TASK; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 34247531926     PISSN: 00207454     EISSN: 15635279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207450600909970     Document Type: Article

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