Behavioral and ERP indices of response conflict in Stroop and flanker tasks

Psychophysiology

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1405-1411

  Tillman, Carin M ^a   Wiens, Stefan ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; ERP; Flanker; Response conflict; Stroop

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052777639     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01203.x     Document Type: Article

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