Increase of universality in human brain during mental imagery from visual perception

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Bhattacharya, Joydeep ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ART; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; OSCILLATION; PHASE TRANSITION; REST; THETA RHYTHM; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MENTAL FUNCTION; PAINTING; PHYSIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ART; BRAIN; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; PAINTINGS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 58149471998     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004121     Document Type: Article

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