Brain oscillations and human memory: EEG correlates in the upper alpha and theta band

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 238, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 9-12

  Klimesch, W ^a   Doppelmayr, M ^a   Pachinger, Th ^a   Ripper, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alpha; Brain oscillations; Encoding; Semantic and episodic memory; Theta

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; THETA RHYTHM;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; SEMANTICS; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 0031472365     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00771-4     Document Type: Article

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