Alpha power is influenced by performance errors

Psychophysiology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 336-343

  Carp, Joshua ^b   Compton, Rebecca J ^a  

^a HAVERFORD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALPHA RHYTHM; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; ERROR; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 60049099597     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2008.00773.x     Document Type: Article

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