Event-related brain potentials and visual attention in six-month-old infants

International Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 119, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1446-1468

  Ackles, Patrick K ^a   Cook, Kathryn G ^b  

^a ELMHURST COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NORTH PARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Event related potentials; Infants; NC component; Recognition memory; Visual fixations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; RECOGNITION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 70350457959     PISSN: 00207454     EISSN: 15635279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207450802330579     Document Type: Article

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