Event-related potentials associated with masked priming of test cues reveal multiple potential contributions to recognition memory

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1114-1129

  Woollams, Anna M ^a   Taylor, Jason R ^a   Karayanidis, Frini ^b   Henson, Richard N ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASKING; MENTAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION;

ADULT; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 44449128617     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.20076     Document Type: Article

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