An investigation of the neural correlates of attention and effector switching using ERPs

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 190-201

  West, Robert ^a,b   Bailey, Kira ^a   Langley, Moses M ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EFFERENT NERVE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649545097     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/CABN.9.2.190     Document Type: Article

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