ERP evidence of a meaningfulness impact on visual global/local processing: When meaning captures attention

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1258-1266

  Beaucousin, Virginie ^a   Cassotti, Mathieu ^b,c   Simon, Grégory ^c   Pineau, Arlette ^c   Kostova, Milena ^a   Houdé, Olivier ^c,d   Poirel, Nicolas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8   (France)

^b MINES ParisTech   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^d INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

ERP; Global local processing; Identification processing; Meaningfulness; N1

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954434994     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.01.039     Document Type: Article

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