Prestimulus cortical activity is correlated with speed of visuomotor processing

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1915-1925

  Zhang, Yan ^a   Wang, Xue ^a   Bressler, Steven L ^b   Chen, Yonghong ^a   Ding, Mingzhou ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MONKEY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STEADY STATE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; MACACA MULATTA; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 55049127287     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.20132     Document Type: Article

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