Modulation of visually evoked cortical fMRI responses by phase of ongoing occipital alpha oscillations

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3813-3820

  Scheeringa, René ^a,b   Mazaheri, Ali ^c,d   Bojak, Ingo ^c   Norris, David G ^c   Kleinschmidt, Andreas ^a,b  

^a NeuroSpin ^*  (France)

^b DIF   (France)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALPHA RHYTHM; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 79952400639     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4697-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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