Temporal variability of the N2pc during efficient and inefficient visual search

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2442-2453

  Dowdall, Jarrod R ^a,b   Luczak, Artur ^c   Tata, Matthew S ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b ERNST STRÜNGMANN INSTITUTE ESI FOR NEUROSCIENCE IN COOPERATION WITH MAX PLANCK SOCIETY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; EEG; Event related potentials; N2pc; Theta; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; RESPONSE TIME; THETA RHYTHM; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL SEARCH; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; THETA RHYTHM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84864386082     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.06.015     Document Type: Article

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