Frontal midline theta rhythms reflect alternative activation of prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex in humans

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 274, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 29-32

  Asada, Hiroshi ^a   Fukuda, Yutaka ^b   Tsunoda, Shigeru ^a   Yamaguchi, Masahiko ^c   Tonoike, Mitsuo ^c  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c Ministry of International Trade and Industry   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; Attention; Electroencephalography; Frontal midline theta rhythm; Magnetoencephalography; Multi dipole modeling; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THETA RHYTHM; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 0032885760     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00679-5     Document Type: Article

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