Individual differences in ERPs during mental rotation of characters: Lateralization, and performance level

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 238-243

  Beste, Christian ^a,b   Heil, Martin ^c   Konrad, Carsten ^d,e  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^e PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Event related potentials (ERPs); Internal consistency; Mental rotation; Neural efficiency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; ROTATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75149152807     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2009.09.005     Document Type: Article

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