What does phase information of oscillatory brain activity tell us about cognitive processes?

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1001-1013

  Sauseng, Paul ^a   Klimesch, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alpha rhythm; Attention; Coherence; Connectivity; Electroencephalography (EEG); Gamma rhythm; Memory; Phase locking; Theta rhythm

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DELTA RHYTHM; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAMMA RHYTHM; HIPPOCAMPUS THETA RHYTHM; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; OSCILLATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL MEMORY; WAVEFORM; WORKING MEMORY;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PERIODICITY;

EID: 44449096548     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2008.03.014     Document Type: Review

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