EEG alpha distinguishes between cuneal and precuneal activation in working memory

NeuroImage

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1296-1310

  Michels, Lars ^a   Moazami Goudarzi, Morteza ^a,c   Jeanmonod, Daniel ^a,b   Sarnthein, Johannes ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attention; ICA; Prefrontal cortex; sLORETA; Theta

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION KINETICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; WORKING MEMORY; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ALPHA RHYTHM; ATTENTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 40849136309     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.12.048     Document Type: Article

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