Overcoming perceptual features in logical reasoning: An event-related potentials study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2629-2637

  Prado, Jérôme ^a   Kaliuzhna, Maria ^a   Cheylus, Anne ^a   Noveck, Ira A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; ERP; Matching bias; Mismatch; N2; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGIC; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 47549086672     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.04.017     Document Type: Article

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