Complexity of visual stimuli and non-linear EEG dynamics in humans

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 104-110

  Müller, Viktor ^a   Lutzenberger, Werner ^a   Preißl, Hubert ^a   Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^b   Birbaumer, Niels ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cell assembly; Dimensional complexity; Perception; Spectral power

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVICE; DYNAMICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRICTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PERIODICITY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS;

EID: 0037365152     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(02)00225-2     Document Type: Article

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