Individuation of multiple targets during visual enumeration: New insights from electrophysiology

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 754-761

  Pagano, Silvia ^a   Mazza, Veronica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

ERP; Individuation; N2pc; Visual enumeration; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE DOMINANCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ENUMERATION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUATION; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858441233     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.01.009     Document Type: Article

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