Human gamma-frequency oscillations associated with attention and memory

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 317-324

  Jensen, Ole ^a   Kaiser, Jochen ^b   Lachaux, Jean Philippe ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; COGNITION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY CORTEX; SHORT TERM MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN; HUMANS; MEMORY;

EID: 34250807958     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2007.05.001     Document Type: Review

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