Alpha oscillations and early stages of visual encoding

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue MAY, 2011, Pages

  Klimesch, Wolfgang ^a   Fellinger, Robert ^a   Freunberger, Roman ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpha; Knowledge system; Memory; Oscillations; Perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857031042     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00118     Document Type: Review

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