Determining eyewitness identification accuracy using event-related brain potentials (ERPs)

Psychophysiology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 894-904

  Lefebvre, C D ^a   Marchand, Y ^a,b   Smith, S M ^a,c   Connolly, J F ^a,d  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Culprit present and culprit absent lineups; Event related brain potentials (ERPs); Eyewitness; Forensic; P300; Recognition memory; Time delay

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CRIME; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; TIME; WITNESS;

EID: 35348934856     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2007.00566.x     Document Type: Article

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