Electrophysiological measures of time processing in infant and adult brains: Weber's law holds

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 193-203

  Brannon, Elizabeth M ^a   Libertus, Melissa E ^a   Meck, Warren H ^a   Woldorff, Marty G ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 38549181475     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.20016     Document Type: Article

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