Changes in brain network activity during working memory tasks: A magnetoencephalography study

NeuroImage

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1804-1815

  Brookes, Matthew J ^a   Wood, Jonathan R ^a   Stevenson, Claire M ^a   Zumer, Johanna M ^a   White, Thomas P ^a   Liddle, Peter F ^a   Morris, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beamformer; Connectivity; Gamma; MEG; Network; Oscillations; Theta

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROMODULATION; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPECTROSCOPY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952690470     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.10.074     Document Type: Article

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