Task difficulty affects the predictive process indexed by visual mismatch negativity

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Kimura, Motohiro ^a   Takeda, Yuji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attention; Event related brain potential; Perceptual load; Prediction error; Predictive process; Task difficulty; Visual mismatch negativity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 84933673816     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00267     Document Type: Article

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