Distinction between perceptual and attentional processing in working memory tasks: A study of phase-locked and induced oscillatory brain dynamics

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 158-172

  Deiber, Marie Pierre ^a,b   Missonnier, Pascal ^a   Bertrand, Olivier ^b   Gold, Gabriel ^a   Fazio Costa, Lara ^a   Ibañez, Vicente ^a   Giannakopoulos, Panteleimon ^a,c  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OSCILLATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; TIME; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 33846194510     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2007.19.1.158     Document Type: Article

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