Temporal accumulation and decision processes in the duration bisection task revealed by contingent negative variation

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ng, Kwun Kei ^a   Tobin, Simon ^b   Penney, Trevor B ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contingent negative variation (CNV); Duration bisection; EEG; Interval timing; N1 P2; Slow potential; Temporal memory; Time perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; WAVEFORM;

EID: 82255170867     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2011.00077     Document Type: Article

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