Top-down control of MEG alpha-band activity in children performing Categorical N-Back Task

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3573-3579

  Ciesielski, Kristina T ^a,b   Ahlfors, Seppo P ^a,c   Bedrick, Edward J ^d   Kerwin, Audra A ^a   Hämäläinen, Matti S ^a,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Dorsal visual cortical network; Magnetoencephalography; Top down control of alpha band activity; Visual Categorical N Back Task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SCHOOL CHILD; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALPHA RHYTHM; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957323597     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.08.006     Document Type: Article

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