Changes in gamma- and theta-band phase synchronization patterns due to the difficulty of auditory oddball task

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 468, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 156-160

  Choi, Jeong Woo ^a   Jung, Ki Young ^b   Kim, Chi Hyun ^a   Kim, Kyung Hwan ^a  

^a Yonsei University Wonju   (South Korea)

^b Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Auditory oddball task; Event related potential (ERP); Gamma band phase synchronization (GBPS); Task difficulty; Theta band phase synchronization (TBPS)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 70450225407     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.10.088     Document Type: Article

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