Sleep spindle-related activity in the human EEG and its relation to general cognitive and learning abilities

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1738-1746

  Schabus, M ^a   Hodlmoser K ^a   Gruber, G ^b   Sauter, C ^b   Anderer, P ^b   Klosch G ^b   Parapatics, S ^b   Saletu, B ^b   Klimesch, W ^a   Zeitlhofer, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Intelligence; Memory; Sleeping; Spindles; Stage 2

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP SPINDLE; SLEEP TIME; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; STATISTICS; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGES;

EID: 33645456311     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.04694.x     Document Type: Article

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