Is reaction time variability consistent across sensory modalities? Insights from latent variable analysis of single-trial P3b latencies

Biological Psychology

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 275-282

  Saville, Christopher W N ^a,b   Shikhare, Sailee ^a,c   Iyengar, Sarayu ^a   Daley, David ^d   Intriligator, James ^a   Boehm, Stephan G ^a   Feige, Bernd ^b   Klein, Christoph ^a,b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ERP; Inconsistency; Intra subject variability; P300; Reaction times

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SENSORY FEEDBACK; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865049378     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.07.006     Document Type: Article

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