Increase in posterior alpha activity during rehearsal predicts successful long-term memory formation of word sequences

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2045-2053

  Meeuwissen, Esther B ^a   Takashima, Atsuko ^a   Fernández, Guillén ^a,b   Jensen, Ole ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Association; EEG (electroencephalography); Inhibition; MEG (magnetoencephalography); Oscillations; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THETA RHYTHM; WORD LIST RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY;

ALPHA RHYTHM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 81055147624     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21167     Document Type: Article

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