Time production and EEG alpha revisited

NeuroQuantology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 138-151

  Glicksohn, Joseph ^a   Ohana, Aviva Berkovich ^a   Dotan, Tal Balaban ^a   Goldstein, Abraham ^a   Donchin, Opher ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

EEG alpha; EEG theta; Individual differences; Peak alpha frequency; Psychophysics; Time production

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REST; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 67649999472     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13035150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14704/nq.2009.7.1.215     Document Type: Article

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