Alpha oscillations correlate with the successful inhibition of unattended stimuli

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2494-2502

  Händel, Barbara F ^a,b   Haarmeier, Thomas ^c   Jensen, Ole ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CINERADIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953022008     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21557     Document Type: Article

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