Judgments of learning do not reduce to memory encoding operations: Event-related potential evidence for distinct metacognitive processes

Brain Research

Volumn 1318, Issue , 2010, Pages 87-95

  Skavhaug, Ida Maria ^a   Wilding, Edward L ^b   Donaldson, David I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cued Recall; Event Related Potentials; Judgments of Learning; Memory Encoding; Metacognition

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; COGNITION; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SCALP; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76449104819     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.11.047     Document Type: Article

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