Electrophysiological evidence of enhanced cortical activity in the human brain during visual curve tracing

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1321-1327

  Lefebvre, Christine ^a   Jolicœur, Pierre ^a   Dell'Acqua, Roberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b DPSS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Curve tracing; ERP; Selective attention; SPCN

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SUSTAINED POSTERIOR CONTRALATERAL NEGATIVITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL CURVE TRACING; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954819783     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.12.006     Document Type: Article

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