Long-range EEG synchronization during word encoding correlates with successful memory performance

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 299-312

  Weiss, Sabine ^a   Rappelsberger, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Concrete nouns; EEG coherence; Frequency bands; Memory encoding; Synchronization; Visual and auditory language

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN CORTEX; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; COGNITION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VERBAL LEARNING; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0034009590     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(00)00011-2     Document Type: Article

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