Left frontal EEG coherence reflects modality independent language processes

Brain Topography

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 33-42

  Weiss, Sabine ^a,b   Rappelsberger, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abstract; Auditory; Concrete; EEG coherence; Language; Visual

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN MAPPING; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ALPHA RHYTHM; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COGNITION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031671430     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022266419488     Document Type: Article

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