Differential conditioning of alpha amplitude: A fresh look at an old phenomenon

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1433-1443

  Harris, Jillene B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alpha desynchronisation; Associative learning; Differential conditioning; EEG; Event related desynchronisation; Pavlovian conditioning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, EYELID; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 20544447713     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2005.02.003     Document Type: Article

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