Hippocampal gamma oscillations increase with memory load

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2694-2699

  Van Vugt, Marieke K ^a   Schulze Bonhage, Andreas ^b   Litt, Brian ^c,d   Brandt, Armin ^b   Kahana, Michael J ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEOCORTEX; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEOCORTEX; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77249145888     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0567-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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