Adaptation to frequent conflict in the eriksen flanker task: An ERP study

Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 50-59

  Purmann, Sascha ^a   Badde, Stephanie ^c   Luna Rodriguez, Aquiles ^b   Wendt, Mike ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b HELMUT SCHMIDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Executive functions; Flanker task

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONFLICT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ERIKSEN FLANKER TASK; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 79955160483     PISSN: 02698803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/0269-8803/a000041     Document Type: Article

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