Enhanced power within a specific band of theta activity in one person while another receives circumcerebral pulsed magnetic fields: A mechanism for cognitive influence at a distance?

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 97, Issue 3 I, 2003, Pages 877-894

  Persinger, M A ^a   Koren, S A ^a   Tsang, E W ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; THETA RHYTHM;

ADULT; BRAIN; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ROBOTICS; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 4143147425     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2003.97.3.877     Document Type: Article

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