A different view on the checkerboard? Alterations in early and late visually evoked EEG potentials in Asperger observers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Kornmeier, Juergen ^a,b   Wörner, Rike ^c   Riedel, Andreas ^b   Bach, Michael ^b   Tebartz Van Elst, Ludger ^b  

^a Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c DR WILLMAR SCHWABE GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ASPERGER SYNDROME; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84898420426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090993     Document Type: Article

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