'Paradoxical' alpha synchronization in a memory task

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 493-501

  Klimesch, W ^a   Doppelmayr, M ^a   Schwaiger, J ^a   Auinger, P ^a   Winkler, Th ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alpha oscillation; Event related desynchronization; Memory; Synchronization; Theta

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; OCCIPITAL LOBE;

EID: 0033020760     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(98)00056-1     Document Type: Article

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