Dissociation of the N2pc and sustained posterior contralateral negativity in a choice response task

Brain Research

Volumn 1215, Issue , 2008, Pages 160-172

  Jolicœur, Pierre ^a   Brisson, Benoit ^a   Robitaille, Nicolas ^a  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

Author keywords

N2pc; PCN; Spatial attention; SPCN; Visual Short Term Memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; DISSOCIATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; N2 POSTERIOR CONTRALATERAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUSTAINED POSTERIOR CONTRALATERAL NEGATIVITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SPACE PERCEPTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 44649191133     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.03.059     Document Type: Article

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