Oscillatory brain activity before and after an internal context change - Evidence for a reset of encoding processes

NeuroImage

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 173-181

  Pastötter, Bernhard ^a   Bäuml, Karl Heinz ^a   Hanslmayr, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpha; Brain oscillations; Context dependent memory; Encoding; Theta

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; OSCILLOMETRY; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 52049099589     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.07.005     Document Type: Article

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