Spontaneous EEG theta activity controls frontal visual evoked potential amplitudes

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 101-109

  Ba̧ar, Erol ^a   Rahn, Elke ^a   Demiralp, Tamer ^a   Schürmann, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Frontal cortex; Prestimulus EEG; Selective stimulation; Theta response; VEP

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003103382     PISSN: 00134694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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