Electrical neuroimaging reveals timing of attentional control activity in human brain

PLoS Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 730-738

  Green, Jessica J ^a   McDonald, John J ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEAMFORMER SPATIAL FILTERING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE;

EID: 43249093505     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060081     Document Type: Article

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