Chapter 10 Upper alpha ERD and absolute power: their meaning for memory performance

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 159, Issue , 2006, Pages 151-165

  Klimesch, Wolfgang ^a   Doppelmayr, Michael ^a   Hanslmayr, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

alpha power; cortical inhibition; event related desynchronization; event related synchronization; memory performance; perceptual performance; top down processing

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INHIBITION KINETICS; INTELLIGENCE; MEMORY; OBSERVATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; ALPHA RHYTHM; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; THETA RHYTHM;

ALPHA RHYTHM; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MEMORY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 33750322836     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(06)59010-7     Document Type: Review

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