Dynamic predictions: Oscillations and synchrony in top–down processing

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 704-716

  Engel, Andreas K ^a   Fries, Pascal ^b,c   Singer, Wolf ^d  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; OSCILLOMETRY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TIME; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; OSCILLOMETRY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0035490101     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35094565     Document Type: Article

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