Rhinal-hippocampal theta coherence during declarative memory formation: Interaction with gamma synchronization?

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1082-1088

  Fell, Juergen ^a   Klaver, Peter ^a   Elfadil, Hakim ^a   Schaller, Carlo ^a   Elger, Christian E ^a   Fernández, Guillén ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

EEG; Hippocampus; Medial temporal lobe; Memory encoding; Rhinal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DISTRACTIBILITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HIPPOCAMPUS THETA RHYTHM; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 0037353895     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02522.x     Document Type: Article

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