Do brain oscillations of different frequencies indicate interaction between cortical areas in humans?

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 286, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 66-68

  Pfurtscheller, Gert ^a   Neuper, Christa ^a   Pichler Zalaudek, Karin ^a   Edlinger, Günter ^a   Lopes Da Silva, Fernando H ^b  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Beta oscillations; Electroencephalogram; Event related desynchronization; Event related synchronization; Sensorimotor function; Voluntary movement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; VOLUNTEER;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN MAPPING; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINGERS; FOOT; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034717081     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01055-7     Document Type: Article

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