Wait, what? Assessing stereotype incongruities using the N400 ERP component

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 191-198

  White, Katherine R ^a   Crites, Stephen L ^a   Taylor, Jennifer H ^a   Corral, Guadalupe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

ERPs; Gender; N400; Social cognition; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; STEREOTYPY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SEMANTICS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66749116608     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsp004     Document Type: Article

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