Contingent Negative Variation
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Mental training enhances attentional stability: neural and behavioral evidence.

19 Oct 2009 The capacity to stabilize the content of attention over time varies among individuals, and its impairment is a hallmark of several mental illnesses. Impairments in sustained attention in patients with attention disorders have been associated with ... Read more...

Processing of auditory location changes after horizontal head rotation.

12 Oct 2009 Under natural conditions, our sound localization capabilities enable us to move constantly while keeping a stable representation of our auditory environment. However, since most auditory studies focus on head-restrained conditions, it is still ... Read more...

ERP evidence for flexible adjustment of retrieval orientation and its influence on familiarity.

29 Sep 2009 The assumption was tested that familiarity memory as indexed by a mid-frontal ERP old-new effect is modulated by retrieval orientation. A randomly cued category-based versus exemplar-specific recognition memory test, requiring flexible adjustment of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Contingent Negative Variation'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Mental training enhances attentional stability: neural and behavioral evidence. 19 Oct 2009
• Processing of auditory location changes after horizontal head rotation. 12 Oct 2009
• ERP evidence for flexible adjustment of retrieval orientation and its influence on familiarity. 29 Sep 2009
• Classical conditioning in the vegetative and minimally conscious state. 18 Sep 2009
• Contingent negative variations associated with command swallowing in humans. 14 Sep 2009
• ERPs in anterior and posterior regions associated with duration and size discriminations. 30 Aug 2009
• Multimodal effects of local context on target detection: evidence from P3b. 30 Aug 2009
• Prior intention can locally tune inhibitory processes in the primary motor cortex: direct evidence from combined TMS-EEG. 25 Aug 2009
• Frontolimbic activity and cognitive bias in major depression. 30 Jul 2009
• Theta phase synchrony and conscious target perception: impact of intensive mental training. 30 Jul 2009
• Concurrent sound segregation is enhanced in musicians. 30 Jul 2009
• Changes in performance monitoring during sensorimotor adaptation. 13 Jul 2009
• Current source density profiles of stimulus-specific adaptation in rat auditory cortex. 29 Jun 2009
• Uncovering the neural signature of lapsing attention: electrophysiological signals predict errors up to 20 s before they occur. 29 Jun 2009
• Abnormal cortical processing of the syllable rate of speech in poor readers. 15 Jun 2009
• Finding the pitch of the missing fundamental in infants. 15 Jun 2009
• Development of preparatory activity indexed by the contingent negative variation in children. 2 Jun 2009
• Hemispheric specialization during discrimination of sound sources reflected by MMN. Jun 2009
• Contingent negative variation under competitive situations. 30 May 2009
• Catechol-O-methyltransferase Val158Met genotype affects neural correlates of aversive stimuli processing. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Contingent Negative Variation'

Definition: A negative shift of the cortical electrical potentials that increases over time. It is associated with an anticipated response to an expected stimulus and is an electrical event indicative of a state of readiness or expectancy.

Descriptor UI: D003265

Alternative terms: Contingent Negative Variation; Contingent Negative Variations; Negative Variation, Contingent; Negative Variations, Contingent; Variation, Contingent Negative; Variations, Contingent Negative; Bereitschaftspotential; Readiness Potential;

Allowable Qualifiers: drug effects; genetics; immunology; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: G07.265.500.250; G11.561.270.250;

History Note: 91(71); was see under ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY 1971-90

Technical Notes: refers to cortical electrical potentials