Structural (operational) synchrony of EEG alpha activity during an auditory memory task

NeuroImage

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 529-542

  Fingelkurts, Andrew ^a,b   Fingelkurts, Alexander ^a,b   Krause, Christina ^c   Kaplan, Alexander ^a   Borisov, Sergei ^a   Sams, Mikko ^d  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b BM Science   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Alpha activity; Binding problem; EEG; Short term memory; Sternberg task; Structural or operational synchrony

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0141535103     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-8119(03)00305-7     Document Type: Article

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