EEG theta and frontal alpha oscillations during auditory processing change with aging

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Evoked Potentials

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 497-505

  Yordanova, Juliana Y ^a   Kolev, Vasil N ^a   Başar, Erol ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory evoked potential; Brain oscillations; Frontal alpha rhythm; Middle age; Phase locking; Single sweep analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THETA RHYTHM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; ALPHA RHYTHM; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 0031684982     PISSN: 01685597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-5597(98)00028-8     Document Type: Article

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