Power of theta waves in the EEG of human subjects increases during recall of haptic information

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 260, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 189-192

  Grunwald, Martin ^a   Weiss, Thomas ^b   Krause, Werner ^b   Beyer, Lothar ^c   Rost, Reinhard ^b   Gutberlet, Ingmar ^b   Gertz, Hermann Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c Arztehaus Mitte   (Germany)

Author keywords

Delayed recall task; EEG; Haptic; Memory load; Theta power; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; TACTILE STIMULATION; THETA RHYTHM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THETA RHYTHM; TIME FACTORS; TOUCH; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033525120     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00990-2     Document Type: Article

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