Phase synchrony among neuronal oscillations in the human cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 3962-3972

  Palva, J Matias ^a   Palva, Satu ^a,b   Kaila, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

; ; Attention; Cortex; Oscillator; Parietal; Synchrony; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBABILITY;

EID: 17644417849     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4250-04.2005     Document Type: Article

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