Frontal gamma-band enhancement during multistable visual perception

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 24, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 113-125

  Başar Eroglu, Canan ^a   Strüber, Daniel ^a   Kruse, Peter ^a   Başar, Erol ^b   Stadler, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

40 Hz gamma rhythms; Ambiguous pattern; EEG; Event related potentials; Multistable perception; Selective attention; Stroboscopic alternative motion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RHYTHM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030294376     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8760(96)00055-4     Document Type: Article

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