Evoked EEG alpha oscillations in the cat brain - A correlate of primary sensory processing?

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 240, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 41-44

  Schürmann, Martin ^a   Başar Eroglu, Canan ^b   Başar, Erol ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF TURKEY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Alpha oscillations; Auditory cortex; Frequency domain analysis; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0032472250     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00926-9     Document Type: Article

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