Brain oscillations dissociate between semantic and nonsemantic encoding of episodic memories

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1631-1640

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpha; Beta; EEG; Gamma; Strategy; Subsequent memory; Theta

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN OSCILLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63849182992     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn197     Document Type: Article

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