Dynamics of event-related causality in brain electrical activity

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1170-1192

  Korzeniewska, Anna ^a   Crainiceanu, Ciprian M ^b   Kuś, Rafał ^c   Franaszczuk, Piotr J ^a   Crone, Nathan E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Brain mapping; Cortical synchronization; EEG; Language; Multivariate analysis; Neural network; Neural transmission; Signal processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE;

EID: 53249098517     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20458     Document Type: Article

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