Cued spatial attention drives functionally relevant modulation of the mu rhythm in primary somatosensory cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 41, 2010, Pages 13760-13765

  Jones, Stephanie R ^a   Kerr, Catherine E ^b   Wan, Qian ^b,c   Pritchett, Dominique L ^c   Hämäläinen, Matti ^a   Moore, Christopher I ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BETA RHYTHM; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MU RHYTHM; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY GATING; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOUCH; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 77958032859     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2969-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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