Are cognitive processes manifested in event-related gamma, alpha, theta and delta oscillations in the EEG?

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 259, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 165-168

  Başar, Erol ^a,b   Başar Eroglu, Canan ^c   Karakaş, Sirel ^b,d   Schürmann, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF TURKEY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Brain oscillations (delta, theta, alpha, gamma); Cognitive processing; Distributed networks; Event related potentials (ERPs); Evoked potentials (EPs); Sensory processing

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THETA RHYTHM;

ALPHA RHYTHM; ANIMALS; CATS; COGNITION; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 0343069811     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00934-3     Document Type: Article

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