Do specific EEG frequencies indicate different processes during mental calculation?

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 266, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-28

  Harmony, Thalía ^a   Fernández, Thalía ^b   Silva, Juan ^a   Bosch, Jorge ^c   Valdés, Pedro ^c   Fernández Bouzas, Antonio ^b   Galán, Lídice ^c   Aubert, Eduardo ^c   Rodríguez, Daniel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE NEUROBIOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c CENTRO DE NEUROCIENCIAS DE CUBA   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Attention; EEG sources; Mental calculus; Statistical parametric mapping; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL PROCESSES; PARIETAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0345280019     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00244-X     Document Type: Article

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