The effects of practice distribution upon the regional oscillatory activity in visuomotor learning

Behavioral and Brain Functions

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Studer, Bettina ^a,b   Koeneke, Susan ^a   Blum, Julia ^a,c   Jäncke, Lutz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UK   (United Kingdom)

^c BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR CORTEX; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MOTOR CORTEX; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76949108370     PISSN: 17449081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-9081-6-8     Document Type: Article

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