Electrophysiological correlates of block-wise strategic adaptations to consciously and unconsciously triggered conflict

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 2791-2798

  Jiang, Jun ^a,b   Van Gaal, Simon ^b,c   Bailey, Kira ^d   Chen, Antao ^a   Zhang, Qinglin ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Block wise conflict adaptation effect; Conflict frequency; Conscious; ERP; Unconscious

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONFLICT; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; RESPONSE TIME; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VISIBILITY;

BLOCK-WISE CONFLICT ADAPTATION EFFECT; CONFLICT FREQUENCY; CONSCIOUS; ERP; UNCONSCIOUS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886291895     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.09.020     Document Type: Article

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