Steady-state visual evoked potentials: Distributed local sources and wave-like dynamics are sensitive to flicker frequency

Brain Topography

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 167-187

  Srinivasan, Ramesh ^a   Bibi, F Alouani ^a   Nunez, Paul L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Laplacian; Neocortical dynamics; Source localization; Spatial spectrum; SSVEP

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; DIPOLE; DYNAMICS; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENERGY RESOURCE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; POWER SPECTRUM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; STEADY STATE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOPOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33644959864     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10548-006-0267-4     Document Type: Article

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