Human brain alpha rhythm: Nonlinear oscillation or filtered noise?

Brain Research

Volumn 818, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 556-560

  Gebber, Gerard L ^a   Zhong, Sheng ^a   Lewis, Craig ^a   Barman, Susan M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha rhythm; Forced oscillation; Human electroencephalogram; Spectral analysis; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; FEMALE; FILTRATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OSCILLOMETRY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0033550710     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)01303-1     Document Type: Article

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