Long-term stability and consistency of EEG event-related (de-)synchronization across different cognitive tasks

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1681-1694

  Neuper, Christa ^a   Grabner, Roland H ^a   Fink, Andreas ^a   Neubauer, Aljoscha C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alpha frequency; Consistency; Event related desynchronization synchronization (ERD ERS); Long term study; Reliability; Stability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTRONEUROLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; GRAVITY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME;

EID: 20444389789     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2005.03.013     Document Type: Article

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