Experience with novel actions modulates frontal alpha EEG desynchronization

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 499, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-41

  Quandt, Lorna C ^a   Marshall, Peter J ^a   Bouquet, Cédric A ^b   Young, Thomas ^a   Shipley, Thomas F ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

Action; Alpha rhythm; EEG; Imitative learning; Mu rhythm; Perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEORECORDING;

ALPHA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959286654     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.05.028     Document Type: Article

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