The N2pc component in ERP and the lateralization effect of language on color perception

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 454, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 58-61

  Liu, Qiang ^a   Li, Hong ^a   Campos, Jennifer L ^b,c   Wang, Qi ^a   Zhang, Ye ^a   Qiu, Jiang ^a   Zhang, Qinglin ^a   Sun, Hong jin ^c  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Categorical perception; Color; Event related potential (ERP); Language; Lateralization; N2 posterior contralateral (N2pc); Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; COLOR PERCEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 62349091424     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.02.045     Document Type: Article

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