Differential entrainment of electroencephalographic activity by weak complex electromagnetic fields

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 527-536

  Persinger, Michael A ^a   Richards, Pauline M ^a,b   Koren, Stanley A ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MALE; NERVE CELL; PERSONALITY TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; TASTE; WRITING;

ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LITERATURE, MODERN; MALE; NEURONS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; POETRY; READING; TASTE; WRITING;

EID: 0031116683     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1997.84.2.527     Document Type: Article

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