Making decisions about time: Event-related potentials and judgements about the equality of durations

Biological Psychology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 94-103

  Paul, Isabelle ^a   Wearden, John ^b   Bannier, Dorian ^a   Gontier, Emilie ^a   Le Dantec, Christophe ^c   Rebaï, Mohamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision process; Event related potentials; Fronto parietal cortex; Prefrontal cortex; Temporal generalization; Temporal memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052458077     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.06.013     Document Type: Article

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