Beta activity: A carrier for visual attention

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 247-260

  Wróbel, Andrzej ^a  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Activation states of the visual system; Alpha beta and gamma frequency bands; Animals' LEP; Cortico thalamic loops; Human EEG; Resonance frequencies; Visual information flow: gain and organization

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ATTENTION; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN CORTEX; CAT; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BETA RHYTHM; CATS; GENICULATE BODIES; HUMANS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034045223     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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