EEG alpha oscillations: The inhibition-timing hypothesis

Brain Research Reviews

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 63-88

  Klimesch, Wolfgang ^a   Sauseng, Paul ^a   Hanslmayr, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Electroencephalogram; Event related potentials ERP; Event related synchronization desynchronization ERS ERD; Memory; Oscillations; Phase synchronization

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CELL POPULATION; COGNITION; DROWSINESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXCITATION; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; METABOLIC RATE; NERVE CELL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33845315253     PISSN: 01650173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresrev.2006.06.003     Document Type: Review

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