Functional frontoparietal connectivity during short-term memory as revealed by high-resolution EEG coherence analysis

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 687-697

  Babiloni, Claudio ^a,c,e   Carducci, Filippo ^a,c,e   Vecchio, Fabrizio ^a,e   Rossi, Simone ^b   Babiloni, Fabio ^a   Cincotti, Febo ^a   Cola, Benedetta ^a   Miniussi, Carlo ^c,f   Rossini, Paolo Maria ^a,c,d,f  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c Ist Ricov/Cura C S S G D F   (Italy)

^d Univ Studi di Roma Camp Biomedico   (Italy)

^e Dipartimento di Chimica   (Italy)

^f Univ Studi di Roma Camp Biomedico   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PARIETAL LOBE; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARIETAL LOBE; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 3242791613     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.118.4.687     Document Type: Article

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