Theta and alpha oscillations during working-memory maintenance predict successful long-term memory encoding

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 468, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 339-343

  Khader, Patrick H ^a   Jost, Kerstin ^b   Ranganath, Charan ^c   Rösler, Frank ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha; Dm effect; EEG; Oscillations; Theta

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; THETA RHYTHM; WORKING MEMORY;

ALPHA RHYTHM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; THETA RHYTHM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72249100378     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.11.028     Document Type: Article

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