Artists' advance: Decreased upper alpha power while drawing in artists compared with non-artists

Brain Topography

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 392-402

  Kottlow, Mara ^c   Praeg, Elke ^a   Luethy, Christine ^b   Jancke, Lutz ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Alpha; Artists; Drawing; EEG; LORETA; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW RESOLUTION BRAIN ELECTROMAGNETIC TOMOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ART; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC PHENOMENA; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; TOMOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78751566491     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10548-010-0163-9     Document Type: Article

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