Statistically robust measurement of evoked response onset latencies

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 374-379

  Letham, Benjamin ^a   Raij, Tommi ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Evoked response; Onset latency; Robust statistics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION;

AUDITORY CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78650513080     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2010.10.016     Document Type: Article

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