Brain Oscillatory Activity during Spatial Navigation:Theta and Gamma Activity Link Medial Temporal and Parietal Regions

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 686-697

  White, David J ^a   Congedo, Marco ^b   Ciorciari, Joseph ^a   Silberstein, Richard B ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ARTICLE; BRAIN OSCILLATORY ACTIVITY; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW RESOLUTION BRAIN ELECTROMAGNETIC TOMOGRAPHY; MALE; MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE; NEUROIMAGING; NEURONAVIGATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THETA RHYTHM; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN WAVES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL LOBE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856328878     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00098     Document Type: Article

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