Gamma Oscillations Correlate with Working Memory Load in Humans

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1369-1374

  Howard, Marc W ^a   Rizzuto, Daniel S ^b   Caplan, Jeremy B ^b   Madsen, Joseph R ^b,c   Lisman, John ^b   Aschenbrenner Scheibe, Richard ^d   Schulze Bonhage, Andreas ^d   Kahana, Michael J ^b,c  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gamma oscillations; IEEG; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; OSCILLATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SCHOOL CHILD; SPECTROSCOPY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURONS; STATISTICS;

EID: 0038016494     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhg084     Document Type: Article

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