Oscillatory gamma and theta activity during repeated mental manipulations of a visual image

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 422, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 141-145

  Kawasaki, Masahiro ^a   Watanabe, Masataka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Gamma wave; Theta wave; Visual working memory; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; THETA RHYTHM; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34447531804     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.04.079     Document Type: Article

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