Frontal-parietal synchrony in elderly EEG for visual search

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-43

  Phillips, Steven ^a   Takeda, Yuji ^a  

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

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; FRONTAL CORTEX; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; RESPONSE TIME; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION TEST; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 73149117551     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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