Processes contributing to forward and backward span: An ERP investigation

NeuroReport

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 298-302

  Nulsen, Claire E ^a   Fox, Allison M ^a   Hammond, Geoffrey R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Digit span; Event related potentials; Memory; P3a; P3b; Serial recognition; Spatial span

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBALIZATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REVERSAL LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 76849094290     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32833730f0     Document Type: Article

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