Prestimulus vigilance predicts response speed in an easy visual discrimination task

Behavioral and Brain Functions

Volumn 7, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Minkwitz, Juliane ^a   Trenner, Maja U ^a   Sander, Christian ^a   Olbrich, Sebastian ^a   Sheldrick, Abigail J ^b   Schönknecht, Peter ^a   Hegerl, Ulrich ^a   Himmerich, Hubertus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ALERTNESS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESTIMULUS VIGILANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STUDENT T TEST; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AROUSAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79961121752     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17449081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-9081-7-31     Document Type: Article

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