The steady-state visual evoked potential reveals neural correlates of the items encoded into visual working memory

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 63, Issue , 2014, Pages 145-153

  Peterson, Dwight J ^a,b   Gurariy, Gennadiy ^a   Dimotsantos, Gabriella G ^a   Arciniega, Hector ^a   Berryhill, Marian E ^a   Caplovitz, Gideon P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Steady state visual evoked potential; Visual attention; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; STEADY STATE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOLUNTEER; WORKING MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT; BRAIN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908099883     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.08.020     Document Type: Article

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