Theta coupling in the human electroencephalogram during a working memory task

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 354, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 123-126

  Sauseng, Paul ^a   Klimesch, Wolfgang ^a   Doppelmayr, Michael ^a   Hanslmayr, Simon ^a   Schabus, Manuel ^a   Gruber, Walter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

EEG; Encoding; Oscillations; Retrieval; Verbal; Visuospatial

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; THETA RHYTHM; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBALIZATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0348048792     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.10.002     Document Type: Article

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