Updating of context in working memory: An event-related potential study

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 298-315

  Lenartowicz, Agatha ^a   Escobedo Quiroz, Rafael ^a   Cohen, Jonathan D ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SCALP; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME; VISION;

BRAIN; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SCALP; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955843500     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/CABN.10.2.298     Document Type: Article

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