Alpha synchronization during auditory spatial short-term memory

NeuroReport

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1129-1132

  Kaiser, Jochen ^a   Heidegger, Tonio ^a   Wibral, Michael ^a   Altmann, Christian F ^a   Lutzenberger, Werner ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

activity; Auditory spatial processing; Cortical oscillations; Delayed matching to sample; Human participants; Magnetoencephalography; Posterior parietal cortex; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34250835881     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32821c553b     Document Type: Article

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