Event-Related Potentials with the Stroop colour-word task: Timing of semantic conflict

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 246-252

  Zurrón, Montserrat ^a   Pouso, María ^a   Lindín, Mónica ^a   Galdo, Santiago ^a   Díaz, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Event Related Potentials; Semantic conflict; Stroop task; Temporal Principal Components Analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COLOR VISION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL BONE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349132253     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2009.01.002     Document Type: Article

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