Asymmetry in alpha power predicts accuracy of hemispheric lexical decision

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 115, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1575-1582

  Weems, Scott A ^a,b   Zaidel, Eran ^c   Berman, Steven ^b,c   Mandelkern, Mark A ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha; Electroencephalography; Hemispheric specialization; Laterality

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; WORD RECOGNITION;

ALPHA RHYTHM; DECISION MAKING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 2942614910     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2004.02.020     Document Type: Article

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