What does ipsilateral delay activity reflect? Inferences from slow potentials in a lateralized visual working memory task

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4048-4056

  Arend, Anna M ^a   Zimmer, Hubert D ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRALATERAL DELAY ACTIVITY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IPSILATERAL SLOW POTENTIAL; MALE; MENTAL LOAD; MENTAL TASK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80055103979     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00068     Document Type: Article

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