High-frequency brain activity: Its possible role in attention, perception and language processing

Progress in Neurobiology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 427-445

  Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a   Birbaumer, Niels ^b   Lutzenberger, Werner ^b   Mohr, Bettina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; REVIEW;

AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PERCEPTION;

EID: 0343488451     PISSN: 03010082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-0082(97)00023-3     Document Type: Review

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