The relationship between theta-gamma coupling and spatial memory ability in older adults

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 498, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-41

  Park, Jin Young ^a,b   Lee, Young Ryeol ^a   Lee, Jaewon ^a,c  

^a Kongju National Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cross frequency coupling; EEG; Old age; Short term memory; Spatial delayed match to sample task (SDMST); Theta and gamma bands; Theta phase and gamma power coupling (TGC)

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM;

AGED; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 79958122271     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.04.056     Document Type: Article

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