Unconscious errors enhance prefrontal-occipital oscillatory synchrony

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2009, Pages

  Cohen, Michael X ^a,b   van Gaal, Simon ^a   Ridderinkhof, K Richard ^a   Lamme, Victor A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; EEG; Oscillation; Synchrony; Top down regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953911563     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.09.054.2009     Document Type: Article

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