Brain spatial microstates of human spontaneous alpha activity in relaxed wakefulness, drowsiness period, and REM sleep

Brain Topography

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 257-263

  Cantero, José L ^a,b   Atienza, Mercedes ^a,b   Salas, Rosa M ^a,b   Gómez, Carlos M ^b  

^a Laboratorio de Sueno   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alpha activity; Dream imagery; EEG; Human; REM sleep; Sleep onset; Spatial segmentation techniques; Wakefulness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPOLE; DREAM; DROWSINESS; ELECTRIC FIELD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGES; SOFTWARE; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0032801897     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022213302688     Document Type: Article

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