Medial temporal theta/alpha power enhancement precedes successful memory encoding: Evidence based on intracranial EEG

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 5392-5397

  Fell, Juergen ^a   Ludowig, Eva ^a,b   Staresina, Bernhard P ^a,c   Wagner, Tobias ^a   Kranz, Thorsten ^a   Elger, Christian E ^a   Axmacher, Nikolai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; THETA RHYTHM; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TEMPORAL LOBE; THETA RHYTHM; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955716941     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3668-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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