High frequency oscillations as a correlate of visual perception

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 32-38

  Martinovic, Jasna ^a   Busch, Niko A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

EEG; Electrophysiology; Gamma band activity; High frequency oscillations; Neural coding; Object representation; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT; GAMMA RHYTHM; HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE CELL; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79251603888     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2010.07.004     Document Type: Article

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