Greater frontal-parietal synchrony at low gamma-band frequencies for inefficient than efficient visual search in human EEG

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 350-354

  Phillips, Steven ^a   Takeda, Yuji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

EEG; Gamma band; Phase locking; Synchrony; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FRONTAL CORTEX; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651033271     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2009.05.011     Document Type: Article

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