Spatial-temporal structures of human alpha rhythms: Theory, microcurrent sources, multiscale measurements, and global binding of local networks

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 125-164

  Nunez, Paul L ^a   Wingeier, Brett M ^a,b   Silberstein, Richard B ^b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Binding problem; Brain dynamics; Coherence; Dura image; High resolution EEG; Laplacian; Phase synchronization; Spatial scale; Spherical harmonics; Synaptic action

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; THETA RHYTHM; WAVEFORM; WORKING MEMORY;

ALPHA RHYTHM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; NERVE NET;

EID: 0034979051     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.1030     Document Type: Article

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