Human cortical 40 Hz rhythm is closely related to EMG rhythmicity

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 213, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 75-78

  Salenius, Stephan ^a   Salmelin, Riitta ^a   Neuper, Christa ^a,b   Pfurtscheller, Gert ^a,c   Hari, Riitta ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b Institute of Biomedical Engineering   (Austria)

^c LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Coherence; Electromyogram; Human; Magnetoencephalography; Sensorimotor, 40 Hz

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX;

EID: 0030564984     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12796-8     Document Type: Article

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