Reduced resource optimization in male alcoholics: N400 in a lexical decision paradigm

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1905-1914

  Roopesh, Bangalore N ^a   Rangaswamy, Madhavi ^a   Kamarajan, Chella ^a   Chorlian, David B ^a   Pandey, Ashwini K ^a   Porjesz, Bernice ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Event related potentials; Lexical decision; N400; Semantic priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NERVE STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78049266318     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2010.01279.x     Document Type: Article

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