Mental rotation of mirrored letters: Evidence from event-related brain potentials

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 180-187

  Núñez Peña, M Isabel ^a,b   Aznar Casanova, J Antonio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Faculty of Psychology   (Spain)

Author keywords

Event related brain potentials; Mirrored letters; Parity judgment task; Rotation related negativity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; ROTATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAVEFORM;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58549095433     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2008.07.003     Document Type: Article

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