Theta power as a marker for cognitive interference

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2185-2194

  Nigbur, Roland ^a   Ivanova, Galina ^a   Stürmer, Birgit ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Conflict; Error related negativity; Event related potentials; Medial frontal cortex; N200; Theta

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CINGULATE GYRUS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; TOPOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COGNITION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THETA RHYTHM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053183940     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.03.030     Document Type: Article

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