P300 amplitudes in the concealed information test are less affected by depth of processing than electrodermal responses

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue NOVEMBER 2012, 2012, Pages

  Gamer, Matthias ^a   Berti, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Concealed information test; Depth of processing; Memory; Mock crime; N200; P300; Skin conductance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CONCEALED INFORMATION TEST; CRIME; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPLICIT MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN;

EID: 84933676241     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00308     Document Type: Article

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