Neural oscillations involved in self-referential processing

NeuroImage

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 757-768

  Mu, Yan ^a   Han, Shihui ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alpha; Beta; Gamma; Neural oscillation; Self reference effect; Theta

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THETA RHYTHM; THINKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COGNITION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PERSONALITY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956060739     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.07.008     Document Type: Article

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