What ERPs Can Tell Us aboutWorking Memory

The Oxford Handbook of Event-Related Potential Components

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Perez, Veronica B ^a   Vogel, Edward K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Contralateral delay activity; Event related potentials; Visual working memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923422672     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195374148.013.0180     Document Type: Chapter

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