Parieto-occipital sources account for the increase in alpha activity with working memory load

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 785-792

  Tuladhar, Anil M ^a   Ter Huurne, Niels ^a   Schoffelen, Jan Mathijs ^a   Maris, Eric ^b   Oostenveld, Robert ^a   Jensen, Ole ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; EEG; Electroencephalography; Encoding; Magnetoencephalography; MEG; Oscillations; Recall

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OSCILLATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 34547887283     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20306     Document Type: Article

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