From prestimulus alpha oscillation to visual-evoked response: An inverted-U function and its attentional modulation

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1379-1394

  Rajagovindan, Rajasimhan ^a   Ding, Mingzhou ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOID; SYNAPSE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953726773     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21478     Document Type: Article

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