α-Band electroencephalographic activity over occipital cortex indexes visuospatial attention bias and predicts visual target detection

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 37, 2006, Pages 9494-9502

  Thut, Gregor ^a,b,c   Nietzel, Annika ^a,d   Brandt, Stephan A ^d   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpha; Cueing; Lateralization index; Oscillations; Spatial attention; TSE

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ATTENTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CUES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33748714335     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0875-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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