Binding of verbal and spatial information in human working memory involves large-scale neural synchronization at theta frequency

NeuroImage

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1654-1662

  Wu, Xiang ^a   Chen, Xiangchuan ^a   Li, Zhihao ^a   Han, Shihui ^b   Zhang, Daren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Binding; EEG; Synchronization; Theta; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; THETA RHYTHM; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 34147155856     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.02.011     Document Type: Article

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