Functional locus of intensity effects in choice reaction time tasks

Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 126-134

  Jaśkowski, Piotr ^a   Szumska, Izabela ^a   Sasin, Edyta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

Author keywords

Arousal; Choice reaction time; Event related potentials; Lateralized readiness potential; Stimulus intensity

Indexed keywords

MARKER;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS; STIMULUS INTENSITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 74549180402     PISSN: 02698803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/0269-8803.23.3.126     Document Type: Article

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