Oscillatory EEG correlates of an implicit activation of multiplication facts in the number bisection task

Brain Research

Volumn 1320, Issue , 2010, Pages 85-94

  Moeller, Korbinian ^a,b   Wood, Guilherme ^b   Doppelmayr, Michael ^b   Nuerk, Hans Christoph ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Event related desynchronization; Multiplication facts; Number bisection task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ERROR; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEUROIMAGING; OSCILLATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MENTAL RECALL; PARIETAL LOBE; PERIODICITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; THETA RHYTHM; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76749131515     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.01.005     Document Type: Article

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