Effects of symbol type and numerical distance on the human event-related potential

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 201-210

  Jiang, Ting ^a   Qiao, Sibing ^a   Li, Jin ^a   Cao, Zhongyu ^a   Gao, Xuefei ^b   Song, Yan ^a   Xue, Gui ^c   Dong, Qi ^a   Chen, Chuansheng ^d  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Comparison; Distance effect; Event related potentials; N170; Number; Symbolic effect; VPP

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; SAUDI ARABIA; SCALP; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYMBOLISM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBALIZATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PROCESSES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71549166039     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.09.005     Document Type: Article

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