The functional significance of theta and upper alpha oscillations

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 99-108

  Klimesch, Wolfgang ^a   Schack, Bärbel ^b   Sauseng, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

EEG; Event related dysynchronization ERD; Event related potential ERP; Long term memory; Phase coupling; Phase locking; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COGNITION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; THETA RHYTHM;

ALPHA RHYTHM; BRAIN; COGNITION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MEMORY; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 17044362752     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.52.2.99     Document Type: Article

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