Individual differences in asymmetric resting-state frontal cortical activity modulate ERPs and performance in a global-local attention task

Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 51-62

  Boksem, Maarten A S ^a,b,c   Kostermans, Evelien ^b,c,d   Tops, Mattie ^e,f   de Cremer, David ^a,c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^f LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alpha asymmetry; Alpha power; Attention; Focus; Lateralization; qEEG

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; SELF REPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84862120777     PISSN: 02698803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/0269-8803/a000067     Document Type: Article

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