Spontaneous fluctuations in posterior α-band EEG activity reflect variability in excitability of human visual areas

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2010-2018

  Romei, Vincenzo ^a,b   Brodbeck, Verena ^a,b   Michel, Christoph ^a,b   Amedi, Amir ^c,d   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^c   Thut, Gregor ^a,b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Electroencephalography (EEG); Phosphene; State dependency; Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS); Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOSPHENES; SLEEP STAGES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 54149102623     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm229     Document Type: Article

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