Attentional focus during learning impacts N170 ERP responses to an artificial script

Developmental Neuropsychology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 423-445

  Yoncheva, Yuliya N ^a   Blau, Vera C ^b   Maurer, Urs ^c   McCandliss, Bruce D ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; READING; SPECTROSCOPY; VISION; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77952334591     PISSN: 87565641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/87565641.2010.480918     Document Type: Article

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