Verbal predicates foster conscious recollection but not familiarity of a task-irrelevant perceptual feature - An ERP study

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 679-689

  Ecker, Ullrich K H ^a,b   Arend, Anna M ^a   Bergström, Kirstin ^a   Zimmer, Hubert D ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conscious memory access; Event related potentials; Familiarity; Feature binding; Feature representation; Memory control; Naming; Perceptual specificity; Recognition memory; Recollection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIZE PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69249221336     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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