Synchronized brain activity during rehearsal and short-term memory disruption by irrelevant speech is affected by recall mode

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 188-203

  Kopp, Franziska ^a   Schröger, Erich ^a   Lipka, Sigrid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EEG coherence; Gamma; Irrelevant speech effect; Short term memory; Theta

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; NERVE NET; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); READING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING; WRITING;

EID: 33745395068     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2005.10.001     Document Type: Article

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